"Virtual Asset Evaluation Committee Appointment" FSS Issues Warning on Impersonation Emails

On May 2, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) issued a consumer warning of "caution" after an incident in which someone impersonated an FSS employee and requested personal information under the pretense of appointing external evaluation committee members for virtual assets.

According to the FSS, around April 30, emails impersonating employees from the FSS Virtual Asset Supervision Bureau were sent to virtual asset-related businesses and individual investors.

The emails stated that an external evaluation committee would be established and operated to provide policy advice on virtual assets, and that the recipient was being appointed as a candidate. A forged official document in the FSS format, specifying the legal basis for the virtual asset-related committee, was also attached.

In particular, the perpetrator attempted to collect the recipient's personal information by instructing them to fill out a Google Form contained in the attached file.

Clicking on the file attached to the email could result in infection with malware, potentially leaking hardware information, system information such as IPO, documents, and files.

The FSS emphasized, "Do not click on links or attachments or reply with personal information to emails from unknown senders," and added, "If you receive an unexpected email from the FSS, please feel free to contact us at any time."

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