It does not matter the preventive measures that the technology or alerts published by the competent organizations and the press publishes: cybercounts always find the way to overcome obstacles. AND The last of his moves is the one known as “Manager’s scam”, a ploy to first steal our bank information and then the account money.
For the victims of this scam, the nightmare began with A message they received by SMS in which they were urgently urged due to a problem in the accounts, to provide fundamental informationincluding the name of the holder and access passwords. All this with the supposed objective of confirming that we are the headlines and solve the “problem.”
In a video posted on social networks by the National Police, it is explained that This deception has ended with the arrest of 12 people who had a mounted operation that allowed them to send up to 1,000 SMS per minute.
@Policia thanks to you we have arrested Jesús Heredia, one of the fugitives of the “the most wanted 10” campaign, was claimed for a crime of murder committed in #talaveradelareina♬ Original Sound – PoliceYoNational
Of all the users who received the messages, At least 760 people fell into the scam that culminated with about 2 million euros In the hands of cybercriminals: on average about 2,600 euros of each victim.
The ability of criminals to supplanting the bank’s phone number was one of the causes that facilitated that many fall into deception. Once the message was received, they were directed to a website that seemed legal, but that contained some strange character or a spelling lack. The fraudulent page requested the data and once overturned, there was nothing to do.
It should be noted that Banks never ask for this type of information, neither by message nor by phone or email. How long they will ask that we approach our branch or, if urgent, to enter the application (without giving us any link) and solve the inconvenience. But they will never ask for anything for these channels. The problem is that, once the scam is done, it is very difficult for the banks to be responsible for the lost money, rather stolen.