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It was “almost a case of phishing”, which ended the ad removal of the Lisbon Metro. “Everything was credible,” but it was fraud.
It could perfectly be an advertising of a traditional bank, ensures businessman Pedro Maia. But it wasn’t. If I entered the QR code exposed in the posters, I would be bombarded with emails that asked him to send data.
Metro and Lisbon admitted to what a outdoor which had exposed in the stop was a fraud. Refers to the responsibility to the company responsible for the ads in the outdoorsto publimetro.
“It was an announcement that all credible appeared, highly credible, with a design credible and that was eventually almost a case of phishing, to take data and ask for money ”, explains the businessman, who decided to try the QR code that accompanied advertising.
When you entered the e-mails of the alleged Banco Noruuuguês, a strange format for a bank, Brazilian mobile phone numbers and a “typical chatgpt” message appeared on the screen: “Add an email subscription”.
The announcement has been removed and the site’s own domain is for sale, but Pedro Maia says that he still receives messages from the supposed company, trying to prove that it is a credible institution. “A bank that is credible does not always have to be justifying that it is a credible bank and which is registered with Banco de Portugal. Even today they send me messages, ”he says.
