Ofgem Energy Bill Rebate Phishing Fraud
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On 3 February 2022, the The UK Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) issued a warning that there has been a "record increase in global gas prices" which saw an "energy price cap rise of 54% "; adding that " Ofgem knows this rise will be extremely worrying for many people ". That last sentence is precisely why phishing threat actors are beginning to use Ofgem-themed lures as a pretext for phishing attacks to target and defraud UK-based users online. On 17 May 2022, Ofgem issued a warning " of a scam email claiming to be from Ofgem asking for bank details so customers can get a rebate " (see Figure 1). This was followed by an alert from UK Action Fraud stating it has received "over 750 reports in just four days about these fake O fgem emails". The UK NCSC also included the warning in its Weekly Threat Report. Figure 1: Ofgem-themed phishing email On 20 May 2022, while researching newly phishing pages a recently created Of