Social media gives state security forces a communication channel through which to inform citizens of different issues that affect them quickly and easily. One of the uses that social media gives to National Police to your channel in TikTok is the one of alerting about cyber scams that are circulating at all times and pose a potential danger. After all, these are the most common cybercrime, a 90% of all the tasks in 2023 According to the crime report of the Ministry of the Interior, there are reports of new campaigns and methods on an almost daily basis.
The National Police has used this platform to warn of a new scam that uses both telephone contact and via WhatsApp to, as the agent in the video explains it, trick the victim. They call it the mystery call fraud and has the following mechanics.
The victim receives a phone call from a number that is not in your contacts list. When he picks up the phone, a voice tells him ‘I have something important to tell you, add me on WhatsApp’ and hangs up afterwards. If you fall for the trick and add the number to your WhatsApp, the scammers will start to deploy some of its many tactics to deceive her.
@police ⚠️Beware of the mysterious call 📞 it could be a #fraud #police #nationalpolice #scam #app #call #security♬ original sound – National Police
What are they up to? As the police say, ‘the same as always.’ Keeping your private data or your money‘. It is about ‘true professionals of deception‘ And with this mysterious call what they seek is to ‘generate uneasiness or curiosity in you so that you do what they want.’
The psychology behind this tactic is to generate enough uneasiness or curiosity in the recipient so that he takes the step of establishing a communication channel with the scammers who, in addition, WhatsApp will not detect. If the number is in the user’s address book, it will not warn them that it is an unknown number and that there may be a possible attempt at fraud behind it. If you are wondering if just adding the phone number to the address book is enough to scam you, the answer is no. But the door is open.