"Your Test Results Are In" NHIS Warns Against Texts Impersonating the Corporation

Recently, there has been an increase in smishing messages impersonating the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) health checkup result notifications, prompting the NHIS to issue a warning.

Headquarters of the National Health Insurance Service in Wonju, Gangwon Province
[Photo by National Health Insurance Service]

On the 29th, the NHIS reported that complaints regarding smishing messages impersonating the NHIS have been continuously received, urging caution. These smishing messages contain the phrase “[Health Insurance Center] Your health checkup notification has been sent” and encourage recipients to click on an internet URL.

The NHIS conducts various notifications to encourage those who have not undergone health checkups to get screened, but it emphasizes that official notifications are sent from the NHIS using the representative phone number or the official website address.

The NHIS stressed that if a message is suspected to be smishing, recipients should not access the link, delete the message immediately, and report it through the ‘Illegal Spam Easy Report’ application provided by the Korea Internet & Security Agency’s Illegal Spam Response Center.

To prevent public harm caused by smishing, the NHIS is also promoting preventive measures by sharing smishing cases and prevention guidelines through its website, Facebook, Twitter, blog, and other social media channels.

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