Sharjah Police warns of electronic requests related to personal or banking data
Fake websites and hacking of social media applications top the crimes of electronic fraud
Electronic fraud by fake websites is caused by user sharing (OTP) token.
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Major Mohsen Muhammad: “The process of electronic extortion often begins by establishing a friendship with the target person.”
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The Sharjah Police General Command revealed that fraud through fake websites and the penetration of social media applications are among the most prominent electronic fraud crimes monitored by Sharjah Police recently.
The Director of the Cybercrime Branch of the Department of Criminal Investigation and Investigation at the Sharjah Police, Major Mohsen Ahmed Muhammad, said that the electronic fraud that is carried out through fake websites aims to obtain the victim's OTP code when he receives it via text messages, and the second reason is the user's lack of awareness of the websites. He pointed out that there is another type of fraud by hacking some social media applications, whereby the account owner is impersonated, and then contacts close people and asks for money under the pretext that the credit card is malfunctioning.
Mohsen added to "Emirates Today": "The Department of Criminal Investigation and Investigation at the Sharjah Police has a technical team specialized in dealing with various electronic crimes. After receiving the communication, the team deals directly with the content of the communication and conducts a technical investigation in it."
He added that the General Command of Sharjah Police, represented by the Department of Criminal Investigations, "Electronic Crimes Office", is making great efforts to enhance societal awareness, by launching intensive awareness campaigns to raise security awareness and sense.
It also publishes the newly developed methods according to the criminal analysis through the security media, and its affiliated platforms on social media or radio and television programs, such as the “Police” TV program, and “Aman Ya Baladi” radio, to immunize society from these electronic threats, in addition to giving lectures. Awareness raising in schools and university colleges, to raise public awareness about its risks or knowledge seminars and others.
On the electronic blackmail process, he said: “The process of electronic blackmail often begins by establishing a friendship with the target person, then moves to the communication stage through video chat programs for the troll to lure the victim and record conversations that contain offensive and obscene content, then threaten and blackmail. ».
He added: “The Technical Crimes Branch deals with this type of crime in strict and professional secrecy, as the victim is reassured and directed to cut off communication with the blackmailer, whatever the pressures, and not to comply with him by transferring the money he requests, and not to resort to another person for help for many reasons that may cause Doubling the damage inflicted on the victim, while the competent teams follow up the complaint very quickly, arrest the blackmailer and hand him over to the hands of justice, and if the blackmailer is from outside the country, he is dealt with electronically by the technical team.
He explained that most electronic crimes occur as a result of electronic lack of awareness, either by leniency with incoming electronic messages and the anonymous links they carry, or by using fake and untrusted sites in commercial transactions, or by trusting unknown people and falling victim to electronic blackmail, and giving in to all the demands of the electronic troll.
He directed a number of tips to protect users: not to trust e-mails that contain a warning, be wary of any electronic requests related to your personal or banking data, not to open any attachments in suspicious e-mails, and not to disclose any sensitive personal information, And don't share it with anyone.
He added: "Avoid entering your banking data on unsafe and unreliable websites, and be sure to subscribe to the bank's text messaging services, and do not copy your personal documents such as a credit card or your bank account on the Internet, and beware of sharing it on social media."
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