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Public alerted as scammers pose as Police, GovPay
Fake text messages misusing the name of the Sri Lanka Police are being circulated, misleading the public to pay fines for speeding viola
Summary
Organised scammers created phishing websites with interfaces highly similar to the official government 'GovPay' website, attempting to deceive the public and steal their bank cards and personal information. The correct address of the official government GovPay website is govpay.lk or govpay.lk/en/, and all official government websites always operate under the official government gov.lk domain name.
What this story is about
Organisations
- Sri Lanka Police2
- GovPay2
- Police Media Division
- GovPay Fake
- CVV/CVC
- OTP
- SMS
Keywords
- text2
- impersonating
- scammers
- speeding
- alerted
- traffic
- website
- public
- scams
- viola
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