O spoofing It appeared in Portugal last year, and since then it has been less common and we have not met a person who has already been the target of a mistake attempt. In Italy, fake numbers will begin to be blocked.
It consists of forgery/theft of an entity as emailphone number, siteIP address, among others, to give an appearance of legitimacy and trust in that contact, in order to deceive the victim.
The most recurring cases of spoofing are for emailcalls and SMS signed with the name, for example, bank institutions or well -known companies.
Institutions such as Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD), the CTT, etc. They are often the target of these schemes.
O spoofing It is not new in Portugal, but, according to, the attempts of slogans of this type are increasing through false numbers.
People continue to fall because the fact that the sender or phone number is identified and is credible makes it believe that it is a true contact.
A CGD It is one of the institutions most affected by this type of fraud and assumes to CM, that is reinforcing warnings with customerswith online safety information and successive fraud alerts, describing approaches and showing images of attempts at burlas.
Last month, Caixa made five alerts for messages and fraudulent calls from “spoofing” – like the BCP, says the CM.
As the same newspaper cites, CGD advocates the “creation of technical mechanisms verification of the authenticity of the referralsin both calls and written messages, with defined protocols of cooperation between banks and operators, which allow a faster and more effective response to the detection of fraudulent patterns. ”
Official source of the National Communication Authority said to the CM that measures are being studied with the National Cyberrseness Center, Banco de Portugal, Judicial Police, communications and banking operators, to mitigate the cases of spoofing.
In October 2024, This entity proposed to the government a change to the law in order to combat “abusive practices associated with spoofing of alphanumeric numbers or identifiers in the identification of the calling line or sender of a message. ”
The regulator of Italyfor example, it has already begun to adopt measures against the spoofing. From November false numbers will be blocked.
