• Crime: Police warn: fashion cyber fraud is cloning your phone card

The National Police is investigating the complaint of a Grenadian for having been the victim of a phishing attack by means of a phone call and the download of a computer program, and for which she has suffered a capital loss of over 47,000 euros in the form of transfers and unauthorized banking transactions.

The police report in a press release that it all started when the victim received a call to his landline from a number with a foreign code. On the other side of the device was a woman who spoke in English and identified herself as the employee of one of the most important software companies worldwide, whose products are usually found on any personal computer, providing a foreign address and a series of corporate emails to give more credibility to your role.

The purpose of the call was to provide a supposed technical support service when the company had detected that the computer license associated with the computer of its property was being used by a Russian hacker . Then, they asked her to turn on her computer and download a computer program to be able to show her, through a secure server, how her license had been canceled due to the improper use of the aforementioned hacker.

Once downloaded the program and put into operation, they showed through it the different IP addresses that had been used and their Russian origin. After the alleged repair, the false employee asked him to make a payment of only five euros using his credit card for technical support, to which the victim agreed convinced of the veracity of the above.

Only a few days later, when checking the status of your bank account, you could verify that there were numerous transfers and unauthorized capital transactions for amounts ranging from just over 500 euros to practically 3,000, accumulating a total figure higher than 47,000 euros, immediately proceeding to block the account and cards and file a complaint for these events.

The upward cyberfraud

Phishing is a cybercrime consisting in the fraudulent appropriation of all types of personal data. Cyber ​​criminals have a predilection for getting credit card information or bank account keys and pins, since they use these to make transactions and purchases not authorized by the rightful owner for the benefit of hackers. Cyber-fraud is the most common of the computer crimes that are registered in our country.

The National Police emphasizes that although the most common is that this information is obtained through malicious mail, there are other modalities in which a telephone or even an SMS message is used. Thus, he states that preventing this type of cybercrime is easy if basic rules are followed, which highlights first of all distrust emails that try to alarm you and urge you to take immediate action under the threat of a problem, especially if you are asked for passwords, passwords or other personal data.

It is suggested not to open emails from unknown recipients and pay close attention to those who present a genuine appearance from banks or other institutions that request information that they already have in their possession; take special care with calls from abroad or "rare" numbers, especially if they speak to you in a different language; download software or files suggested by unknown persons via phone, mail or SMS; and, in general, do not provide personal information about you or your relatives if you are not completely sure of the need to do so, and remember that banks will never ask for that information since they already have it.

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