Scammers are sending fake texts in the name of the Interior Ministry about unpaid traffic police fines, in an attempt to get people's personal data. Police in Veliko Tarnovo, the regional Interior Ministry directorate's press office, warned about the scheme. Officers have been seeing it for several days.

The texts claim the recipient broke traffic rules and did not pay a speeding fine, and they set a deadline for payment. Anyone who does not pay is threatened with more penalties, a report to law enforcement and even the forced seizure of their car.

The link leads to mvrrbg.eu.cc/bg. This is not an Interior Ministry site but a fake page that copies the ministry and asks for personal data. Police say the aim is probably to collect the data illegally and use it for fraud.

Police advise people not to open links in such messages and not to give out their personal ID number, address, ID document details or bank card data. People should also not pay through suspicious sites. The Interior Ministry says fines and violations are checked only through official channels and on the ministry's website.

The sender asks for the digit "1" to be sent back as a reply. Police advise people not to reply to the messages in any way.