The battle against cyber crime persists, this week in the form of several attempts by telephone callers purporting to be from BT Openreach; allegedly wishing to conduct checks on the recipients router.

This MO is not new and has been the means of contact to CEMEX staff on several previous occasions. On this occasion one of the calls was received from a number recorded as 0012107611940 ….BUT PLEASE REMEMBER… sophisticated scams can be made to appear to originate from any number. This can be the number that shows as an incoming call, or especially, as an incoming SMS text. Scam texts can even be inserted to an existing conversation record on your device!

Never respond directly to an unsolicited text, call or email…however tempting. Please do ‘the hard yards’ and go the long way round…hang up…research the correct customer helpline number and make your own return call to the number publicised.

Cyber enabled crime remains the global #1 threat to CEMEX business. More advice can be found on the Cyber Security and Information Security Culture Groups – feel free to sign up and thank you for your continued vigilance.