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A 35-year-old Norwegian from Oslo decided on Thursday to cheat on his partner with an ambitious April Fool prank. In an email, he pretended to be the National Institute of Public Health, FHI, and informed his girlfriend that he had been in contact with a person who tested positive for covid-19. Therefore, the “authority” urged her to self-quarantine.
But the joke was caught by the system of the National Institute of Public Health to detect fraud.
The email was taken on very seriously and the authority issued a warning both internally and externally. On Twitter, Norwegians were urged not to open the sender’s emails.
https://twitter.com/Folkehelseinst/status/1377565473022283777
It wasn’t long before the Norwegian media took to the news.
– We hope recipients understand that this is an attempted fraud, FHI Deputy Director Gun Peggy Knudsen told NTB earlier that day.
The authority told NRK that it is serious for someone to impersonate the National Institute of Public Health.
The resurrection achieved finally the 35-year-old, who had a bad conscience and contacted the authority to ask if it was possibly his April Fool prank that was behind the warning. Later, the man also apologized for the issues he raised and assured that it was not his intention.
Since then, FHI has been in contact with the 35-year-old and says he is sorry, according to NRK. The authority has not yet decided whether the incident will be reported to the police.
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