Extensive conference on cyber fraud using the "fishing" technique – phishing via email or phone messages extracting bank deposits from victims took place today at the Ministry of Civil Protection. The Minister of Citizen Protection Takis Theodorikakos after the end of the meeting stressed that the phenomenon of deception has spread and for this reason a great information campaign of the citizens begins..
"Unfortunately, the phenomenon of deceiving citizens with losses for their property, with supposed messages, with fake messages from banks has spread to a very large extent ", said Mr.. Theodorikakos and continued: "The Ministry of Civil Protection took the initiative of this meeting with the Governor of the Bank of Greece, with the president of the Hellenic Banks Association and the executives of the Greek Police, in order to join forces, to coordinate our action to protect the property of citizens, he added.
"The first decision, of course, is to make a very big one information campaign the citizens, "In order to prevent the phenomenon from spreading further and for the citizens themselves to know what they need to do to protect the bank accounts and the property they have acquired through the efforts of often a lifetime," he said..
"We are also creating a coordination center, so that the prosecuting authorities of the Greek police in cooperation with the Bank of Greece, the Association of Greek Banks and other co-competent services to have coordinated action even more effective in order to defeat the swindlers who commit these criminal acts and to bring them to justice ".
The Minister participated in the meeting Takis Theodorikakos, Deputy Minister Lefteris Oikonomou, the Governor of the Bank of Greece Giannis Stournaras, the General Secretary of Public Order Konstantinos Tsouvalas, the Chief of the Hellenic Police, Lieutenant General Michael Karamalakis, the President of the Banking Association Vassilios Rapanos, the Vice President of the Executive Committee of the Association of Banks Spyridon Andronikakis, the Director of Inspection of Supervised Companies George Pascha, the General Secretary of the Hellenic Banking Association Charoula Apilagaki, the Chairman of the Coordinating Committee Ioannis Grammatikakis, the Director of Cybercrime Prosecution Police Director Vassilios Papakostas and the Director of Financial Police Police Director Dimitris Loukopoulos.
Source: Reader.gr
