(NORFOLK COUNTY, ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Norfolk County Detachment is investigating an incident after being called to a William Street, Delhi, Norfolk County, Ontario address.
On Friday, May 2, 2014 at approximately 1:20 p.m., police received a call from a concerned resident after they received an email claiming to be from their financial institution. The email appeared to be from corporate security services which requested that all personal and financial information be updated.
The resident clicked on the link that was provided and proceeded to fill out the requested information. The resident subsequently received a call from their financial institution informing them that their account had been compromised and that $685 dollars had been lost through a money transfer.
The OPP is reminding all residents that if you should receive an email requesting personal and financial information to be extremely vigilant. This is a scam and it’s called phishing.
The word phishing comes from the analogy that Internet scammers are using email lures to ‘fish’ for passwords and financial data from the sea of Internet users.
Phishing, also called brand spoofing” is the creation of email messages and Web pages that are replicas of existing