The National Police has warned on its Twitter profile about a new scam through WhatsApp. In it, social engineering techniques are used so that the victim agrees to pay a significant amount of money to the criminals.
The modus operandi’ is simple: pretending to be an alleged relative who has a new phone number and urgently needs a large sum of money. The criminal claims problems with the current phone number and that they cannot receive calls.
Generally, the victim profile is a woman with children. Investigators have detected this pattern in the incidents and the scams range between 2.000 and 26.000 in each case.
🚩Detectada una nueva modalidad de #estafa through #WhatsApp
Los estafadores contactan con mujeres y las engañan haciéndose pasar por sus hijos para solicitarles, de manera urgente, #dinero con el fin de hacer frente a un problema inmediato pic.twitter.com/sqjbE1SuZm
— Policía Nacional (@policia) April 4, 2022
La Policía recomienda no perder la calma ante esta situación y recomienda hablar con el familiar en cuestión si se recibe un mensaje de este tipo. Sobretodo, nunca hacer la transferencia.
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