The General Inspector of Financial Information warns against possible new attempts of fraud and contact - allegedly by the General Inspector of Financial Information - in connection with the occurrence of an error in files, which was noticed after the data was sent by the obliged institution referred to in Article 2 para. 1 of the Act of 1 March 2018 on the Counteracting Money Laundering and  Financing of terrorism (Journal of Laws of 2023, item 1124 as amended), hereinafter referred to as: The Act. In the e-mails sent, there may be a link to complete the form, through which you can allegedly correct the error. The use of this link should be avoided.

Please be careful, as the actions described above may be attempts to extort data or funds.

The General Inspector of Financial Information, in the light of the Act, is a government administration body competent in matters of counteracting money laundering and terrorist financing (Article 10.1.2 of the Act). The General Inspector of Financial Information and employees of the Department of Financial Information of the Ministry of Finance use the reserved domain ‘mf.gov.pl’ in e-mail correspondence. The General Inspector of Financial Information calls for a thorough check of the domain from which the e-mail came. Even a small deviation from the exact wording of the domain - even a change of one letter - means that the sender of the message is neither the General Inspector of Financial Information nor the Department of Financial Information of the Ministry of Finance.

The detailed method of providing obligated institutions with a request to send again or to correct, respectively, information on transactions or the identification form is specified in § 7 of the Regulation of the Minister of Finance on providing information on transactions and the form identifying the obligated institution of 4 October 2018 (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1946).

 

In case of attempted fraud, we encourage you to use the CERT platform available at: https://incydent.cert.pl/#!/lang=pl , which is used to report any cybersecurity incidents. 

This is in addition to Communication No. 94 on possible fraud attempts, by contacting various entities, allegedly at the request of the General Inspector of Financial Information available at https://www.gov.pl/web/finanse/komunikat-nr-94-w-major-prob-fraud-by-contact-by-different-entities-alleged-on-command-general-inspector-financial-information