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The National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE) has warned about the discovery of a new cyber-fraud campaign in which cybercriminals pose as the National Police in order to extort money from the victim. As in so many other cases, the thymus is developing through email. In the messages detected by the institution, the criminals try to alert the victim by informing about the opening of an alleged legal proceeding against him for drug use. child pornographypedophilia, cyberpornography and exhibitionism.
“In reality there is no investigation, but it is the pretext used to cause concern to the recipient of the mail and that he responds and accesses their requests,” they point out from INCIBE.
Fraudulent emails are sent from an email account generated, possibly randomly, from email services widely used by users, such as Gmail, and therefore have no relationship with the National Police.
The subjects used to capture the attention of possible victims are: ‘CRIME’ or ‘QUICK SURVEY’, “although it is not ruled out that there are other emails with other subjects that have the same purpose.” The notification, supposedly, police is attached to the mail in PDF format. It has logos, watermarks and a signature that could correspond to an official communication from the Police.
In the message, the user is directly informed of a supposed resolution of the ‘legislator’, which concludes that after the end of the investigation, “the user has committed crimes through the Internet, among which are possession of pornographic content childish”. For all these reasons, you are asked to send your justifications by email, so that they can be examined and verified within a strict period of 48 hours. If after that period of time, there is no response, he is threatened with sending the supposed report to the Judicial Court so that an arrest warrant can be issued against him.
The objective of the campaign, deep down, is none other than to get the victim to be swindled so that he or she, prey to worry, ends up sharing personal data with cybercriminals. “It is possible that cybercriminals continue with the extortion and request some type of financial amount, or even install some program or tool on the user’s device to take control of it and continue with the fraud,” says INCIBE.
In the event that the user receives an email of this type, they must bear in mind that it is important to distrust all those messages that try to alert. In case of doubt about the veracity, the ideal, in any case, is never to respond to the email. Instead, what should be done is to contact by another means (such as a phone call) with the institution that, in theory, has made the communication.
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