Fake RGZ Emails Demand Payments, Serbian Police Warn
Serbia's Interior Ministry says messages sent from dmspodrska@rgz.gov.rs demand money in the name of the Republic Geodetic Authority. The agency sent no invoices from that address.
Fake emails sent in the name of the Republic Geodetic Authority (RGZ), Serbia’s national land registry and mapping agency, are reaching households and companies and asking them to transfer money. The Interior Ministry (MUP) issued the warning on July 29, 2026, and named the exact address the messages come from.
The sender field shows dmspodrska@rgz.gov.rs. The subject line reads: “SPECIFIKACIJA po ugovoru br. 09-1780/2026, od 01.06.2026. do 30.06.2026”, or “Specification under contract no. 09-1780/2026, from June 1 to June 30, 2026”. Police say the Republic Geodetic Authority has sent no specifications, no invoices and no payment requests from that address.
How does email spoofing work?
The sender address is forged. What the recipient sees is the domain of a state institution, even though the message never left that institution’s mail server. The technique is called email spoofing, and it does not require anyone to break into the agency’s account.
That is why a quick glance is no defence. A message carrying a contract number and a billing period that runs from June 1 to June 30 looks like the paperwork that passes through an accounts department every month, and that is exactly where it is aimed.
What the ministry advises
The Interior Ministry tells recipients to:
- avoid opening attachments and links in suspicious messages
- ignore any instructions the message contains
- make no payments
- verify the message through the Republic Geodetic Authority’s official channels and alert the authorities
The ministry added that it is taking steps to establish the full circumstances, identify those responsible and protect citizens and companies from fraud of this kind. The Republic Geodetic Authority and other competent bodies are involved, police said.
Third fraud case in five days
On the same day, July 29, the Interior Ministry and the Tax Administration announced the arrest of two men, J. C. (38) from Sabac and Z. T. (48) from Novi Sad, over fictitious invoices worth 37,428,000 dinars. Four days earlier, on July 25, police in Leskovac caught a 30-year-old man from North Macedonia suspected of taking around 2,650 euros, 120,000 dinars and gold jewellery from a 75-year-old woman after telling her that her daughter had been hurt in a crash.
The target is what separates them. A phone scam looks for a frightened individual, while fake emails in the name of the Republic Geodetic Authority look for a company that settles invoices on a monthly cycle.
Police have not said how many messages went out, or whether anyone has already paid. The warning was published while the attempt is still under way, so messages with the same subject line may keep arriving in company inboxes.
