The tricks to recognize a telephone scam and prevent your money from being stolen

2024-03-20 16:59:18
It doesn’t matter if it’s by email, SMS or WhatsApp; Cybercriminals exploit any means that the user uses to receive information to try to scam them and steal their money. And phone calls are no exception. These types of attacks are known as ‘vishing’ and, in them, criminals normally impersonate a company or a banking entity to trick the victim into doing, and telling them, everything they want. Ask him. «If you have a call from an ‘alleged’ employee of your bank who tells you that someone has charged your card and needs to verify some information; or they call you from the supermarket where you usually make purchases to do a user survey and then reward you with a gift voucher and they ask for your bank details… be wary,” they warn from the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU), which recently published a publication warning about this type of scam. Related News standard No The new ‘hack’ that they are using to steal all the money you have in the bank standard No They warn about a dangerous email in which they impersonate the National Police to steal from you R. Alonso The key: worry Indeed, Criminals often pose as private companies or banking entities to deceive the victim. A few years ago, ‘vishing’ scams in which the Microsoft technical team was impersonated became very popular. In these cases, criminals often claimed that the user had a ‘hacked’ computer and then asked for all kinds of personal and banking details. The key, and the ‘bad guys’ are clear about this, is to worry the user, make them believe that they have a real problem and that they must solve it urgently so that they are willing to do everything they ask of them without complaining. Check that what they tell you is real All cybersecurity experts recommend that you be distrustful when you have the slightest doubt about the veracity of a communication. So what you have to do is try to verify, in other ways, that what the person on the other end of the phone is telling you is real or not. “If she cannot or refuses to provide you with the information necessary to verify his identity, do not trust her. Even if they provide you with their contact information, you must verify its veracity by calling an official public telephone number to contact their organization,” they warn from the cybersecurity company Kaspersky. In any case, never share the slightest information. It is better to contact the company that supposedly called you through another means, which must always be an official one, before making any move. Don’t download anything either. The National Cybersecurity Institute also points out that the user should not only not share any data with whoever is on the other end of the phone; He should not download anything to his devices because it asks him to. Because you never know if it may contain malicious code, for example, a Trojan dedicated to stealing all your banking information. Hang up and, if you fall, report Cybersecurity experts also recommend hanging up the phone directly and never accepting another call from that number. If you fall into the trap, or have suspicions that this has happened, contact the company that supposedly contacted you and file a report with the State Security Forces and Bodies.
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