Smishing texts impersonate National Health Insurance Service with refund offers
Malicious smishing texts impersonating the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) were circulated. The scam used refund offers to lure recipients into clicking links in the messages.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Phishing & smishing
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Refund texts impersonating the National Health Insurance Service to lure recipients into clicking links
- Location
- South Korea
If your data was exposed
- Don’t tap links in texts, calls or emails that mention this incident and offer compensation, refunds or breach checks. Check directly on the organisation’s official website or app.
- If you’ve suffered harm, report it. Call 118 (no area code) for privacy violations, contact the police for financial losses, and apply for dispute mediation to seek compensation.Personal Information Infringement Report Centre ↗Korean National Police Agency cybercrime report ↗Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee ↗
Timeline
- A warning was issued about refund notice smishing impersonating the National Health Insurance Service.
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