PCCOCS warns public institutions and citizens about fraud

The Prosecutor's Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS) warns public institutions and citizens about a document that falsely claims to be signed by the chief prosecutor of the institution. The document is addressed to clinics in Chisinau and refers to alleged 'criminal investigations of a kidnapping'.

According to PCCOCS, the so-called document, spread in the public space requests medical leaders to provide lists of individuals undergoing certain treatments, supposedly for the investigation of a 'kidnapping.'


'The fake document mimics the PCCOCS letterhead and claims to have been registered in the prosecutor's office's registry, but the institution's email address to which clinics are supposed to send the patient lists does not exist within the prosecutor's system,' announced PCCOCS.


In this context, the institution warns that the document was not issued by PCCOCS prosecutors, its registration number is false, there is no such criminal file in the institution, and the email address provided to doctors is not used by PCCOCS prosecutors, the correct one being displayed on the institution's official page.


'The prosecution and any person from the institution, when sending letters in the interest of service, use exclusively official correspondence that contains the sequence - ...@procuratura.md'. Moreover, any electronic document is signed only electronically, not handwritten,' explained the institution.


PCCOCS urged citizens to closely analyze public messages and check if they are also found on the official pages of the institutions. The warning is made even in the context of the parliamentary elections on the upcoming September 28.