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[PIO] Announcement by the Health Insurance Organisation regarding fraud through misleading and malicious messages

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The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) has found that false and malicious messages have recently been sent to mobile phones, using the name GHS/GESY/GESY and the official GHS logo, informing the recipient that they must follow a link to update their health record/file.

If the recipient chooses the link, he is asked to enter his personal data such as full name, address, city, telephone number and then pay a specific fee, choosing a payment method and bank card details.

OAS stresses that this is a scam and has nothing to do with GESY and OAS. Beneficiaries of the System are advised to be particularly careful and not to follow relevant electronic links and/or make any payment because there is a serious risk of their data being intercepted. Furthermore, the Agency points out that it never requests data or payments via text messages and invites the public to ignore such messages. A sample malicious message is provided here. For a sample end screen in case the recipient clicks the link, click here.

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