Goal has proposed awareness to users of their social networks and messaging services about the most common financial scamswhich seek that the victim make a payment or make an investment with the promise of obtaining a gain in return.
These scams They are distributed by different channelssince they can reach the potential victims Through emails and messages, but also called, in services such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messengeramong others.
Since the beginning of last year, Goal has dismantled 7 million accounts related to criminal groups specialized in financial scamsbased in Burma, Laos, Cambodia, United Arab Emirates and the Philippines, as reported in its official blog.
Also In March, more than 23,000 Facebook pages and accounts mainly addressed to people in Brazil and Indiawhich use image manipulations and videos made with artificial intelligence, which is known as ‘Deepfake’, to deceive their victims.
In this framework, The company has highlighted the most common scams, which seek that victims invest “in fraudulent or non -existent opportunities”that promise “fast and easy returns with little or no risk.”
The most common scams
On the one hand, there are investment scamsin which cybercriminals Employees and investment advisors affiliated with cryptocurrency investment applications are madelike Luno and Valr.
Also They focus on payments, as requested by an advance for a purchase in a supposedly legitimate store prior to sending or deliveryand those in which the cybercriminal pays more for an article purchased on the Internet and subsequently requests a partial reimbursement, and then revert the original payment.
Meta applications They have tools that help detect scams And, for example, they show a warned to users in Messenger when suspicious activity is identified related to the purchase of a product.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp allow users to restrict the contact of unknown peopleand Messenger and Instagram use facial recognition technology to detect and prevent scams that supplant the image of celebrities and expedite identity verification to recover accounts.
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