The crooks create a relationship of trust with their target before encouraging them to invest in fake applications.
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JOHN MOORE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP
Dating apps have emerged for some as the latest tool to maintain social interactions and a love life during this time of health crisis.
But criminals have also taken the opportunity to scam users.
In total, more than four million scams were recorded on these applications in 2020 by Arkose Labs, a platform specializing in fraud and their prevention, reports
Presse-Citron
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These crooks have developed a well-established technique.
They first try to establish a relationship of trust with the victims by engaging in conversation.
Then they talk about business and ask the target people to invest money, often in bogus trading apps.
Interpol calls for cooperation from authorities in 194 countries
Once the victims have transferred the money, the criminals disappear… Interpol therefore wishes to warn against this type of practice based on breach of trust.
The International Criminal Police Organization has thus published a purple notice intended for "research or sharing of information on operating methods, objects, devices and methods of concealment used by criminals".
This notice has been filed with 194 countries in order to alert but also to encourage the cooperation of local authorities.
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