Beware of health insurance spammail

Consumer advice advises caution against data rip-off via health insurance e-mail

09/02/2013

Many consumers are currently receiving spam e-mails that are currently promoting a private health insurance. Consumer Center Thuringia in Erfurt warns. In the e-mails the recipients are advised to switch to a private health insurance with particularly favorable tariffs. However, the sender so obviously only want to get to the data of the recipient.

The content of the e-mails is always similar: "The current health insurance tariff is outdated and too expensive and a conversion to a private base tariff between 59 and 99 euro monthly makes sense". And this without something changes. For the addressees, the e-mails contain links to an Internet site that advertises the slogan: "Save up to 2,500 euros a year".

First, however, the recipients should first enter information such as name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, status and marital status in a data mask. "If you press the comparison button afterwards, your data will be delivered, but you can not be sure that you will receive a serious contract offer," warns Ralf Reichertz, Head of Unit Legal at the Consumer Center.

A really serious offer of a private health insurance company, which even offers only the standard services, it can simply not give for 59 €. Obviously, the main concern of the sender of the mails is to collect data and then market it. E-mails should therefore be deleted immediately. (Fr)

Picture: Rainer Sturm