Sara Borondo
How many times do you think you can touch the prize of a raffle?Few, right?Well, judging by the number of times that messages of that type arrive, it would be said that we are fortunate.Thus they try to cheat us through social networks, a habitat in which more and more scammers move.
WhatsApp is one of the most used media by cybercriminals to spread their viruses and prepare their scams.It is because almost no one considers when opening a file sent by someone of trusted if it is potentially dangerous, but they can be.A few years ago it was discovered that by downloading a simple GIF in the application received by WhatsApp, a virus was installed on the phone that stole personal information from the phone owner, and the alert jumped so much when it was known that a simple call could serve toInstall 'Spyware', which informed computer criminals of all the activities of the terminal owner.
In March, a WhatsApp message chain was detected in which it was said that a sports clothing manufacturer gave a million pairs of shoes.It worked like this: a link appeared that directed a website in which three boxes had to be opened, and when opening the third, I 'touched' the prize.To achieve this, the message had to.It even reached money "to cover shipping costs".To receive the gifts, the victim was indicated to fill out a form with their personal and banking data.And, once this step was completed, the next thing the user saw was an error message.
These types of deception are common in the case of vouchers to buy in supermarkets or stores, promises to get free internet or threats that the 'app' will stop being free.
And the pandemic has only intensify scams.In fact, in January a chain of messages indicated that the Government granted aid for the economic damage caused by COVID-19 but, once again, it was a decoy that directed to a page that requested personal data.On other occasions these fraudulent messages simply encourage surveys related to the health crisis but, meanwhile, they collect data.
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To avoid fraud by WhatsApp, the Internet Security Office recommends:
Facebook is a good breeding ground for all types of fraud, from the most classics based on raffles and discount coupons that lead to a link in which personal or banking data must be provided to ads with very cheap articles, so much so that it is suspicious ... That's right.If, anyway, we decided to look at that offer, before indicating payment form you have to set if the page address starts with 'HTTPS' and the lock is green, indicating that it is a safe payment catwalk, andIf on the page there is a real contact with telephone and address.
Facebook is also the showcase for advertisements that encourage an application in which a malicious code is also aimed at stealing the user data.
There are even boundary but effective methods aimed at cheating people with economic problems: very cheap loans are offered for which an advance is requested before.Despite how suspicious it looks clearly, there are those who fall into the trap.This is an example of the classic Timo transferred to the networks.But there are more: profiles are created, usually female, to contact men in search of a love relationship.Once the person has been seduced, his alleged virtual lover asks for money to buy the ticket and travel to meet, because the scammer claims to need it urgently for health issues or can also kidnap the victim asking for money after having convinced him thatSend erotic photos.In February of this year, the Civil Guard Technological Crimes team carried out the 'Operation Farmamor', in which he arrested a woman and two men in the Valencian town of Liria for alleged crimes of bank fraud and money laundering by capital byvalue of 72.000 euros through these supposed dating websites.
One way to avoid this scam is to make an inverse search of images on Google.To do this you have to go to the top of the search engine screen and click on 'images', then the image of the suspect profile is then dragged to the search box and if the search returns enough results in which the same appearsPhotography is probably a fraud.
Here the most common scams are those of romance, those related to the lottery in which you have to pay an in advance to collect (similar to that of WhatsApp), false investments, loans that also ask for money in advance and false adswork aimed at gathering data.
In February of this year a wave of supplication of accounts on Instagram was detected.The criminals created a profile with a name and image very similar to that of the account that they were going to use as bait - without the owner knew - and even copied some of their last publications.Then, either they requested friendship to followers of the legitimate account and sent them a message telling them that they had won a raffle and that they entered a website or asked friends with followers of the legitimate account and in the direct message there was information and link to an account to an accountillegitimate of Onlyfans encouraging to be subscriber in that payment network.This is what you have to do in case of detecting an identity impersonation in a social account: