WhatsApp is a widely used tool today, but its use poses significant risks that you need to be aware of. Below we'll tell you what to do in /// that you fall into the trap.
Cybercriminals are constantly on the lookout to detect vulnerable, unwary or uninformed users to capture their data. account from WhatsApp, impersonate your identity and/or access your insights sensitive already its money.
In order to alert you and avoid this, here we share some of the most common tactics used by scammers and how to protect yourself. tiempo.
1) Cybercriminals They pretend to be one person known or a entity to win your confidence. and get you to share your insights or that you send them money.
Scammers often assure you that they are some kind of person de confidence. (friendship, familiar or related), but due to a recent “problem” they contact you from a new number, usually different from the one you already have.
They also pretend to be brands and companies that supposedly write to you to give you prizes and discounts. Similarly, they can claim to be part from the recruiting team of a company who is interested in you as employee/a. First they wake up your interest by promise of great benefits. Once they have your interest, they proceed to ask you insights sensitive or amounts of money that look small compared to what you will later receive.
Scammers may also solicit donations for supposed charitable causes, such as relieving a familiar that is in a situation of emergency (hospital, police, kidnapping…). If this happens to you, be suspicious and contact the person who claim to be before responding to your request helps or any other person that I ask you money with great haste.
2) Another modality of swindle by WhatsApp is impersonate you booth o entity financial Unlike /// previous, the objective is not necessarily for you to send them moneyBut you provide them with the insights access to your banking products or insights staff. This crafts can use your savings accounts and products credit.
3) Theft your account from WhatsAppUsing this method, cybercriminals take control of your profile, preventing you from accessing it as you normally would.
With your WhatsApp in your power, Cybercriminals have access to your contacts, your conversations, and your shared files. This allows them to scam people close to you using your identity, ask you for a financial ransom to return your account or blackmail you by publishing content that could harm your privacy and reputation.
To get hold of your account, criminals obtain the verification codes that, for security, WhatsApp sends to your phone by SMS. If someone asks you for that bar code with the excuse that you have received it by mistake, be wary, because it is very likely that they are trying to to kidnap tu account.
4) Other methodology and de swindle WhatsApp is social engineering that, with techniques such as phishing, achieves install malicious programs on your mobile to access the insights contained in memory and applications, as well as to your bank accounts.
To achieve this, cybercriminals send you contaminated files and web links that deploy spyware with the potential to breach your privacy and steal your passwords.
What to do?
– Avoid interacting with people using unknown numbers, unless you can test su identity.
– Never transfer money to acquaintances and relatives unless you have verified the validity of your request by other means. It does not matter if it is a situation of emergency, do not respond to his request for helps without first confirm that the emergency situation is indeed part
– Never share with anyone the verification codes you receive via SMS, this is a insights that only serves you and no one else.
– To the extent possible, treats to prevent access to websites through links that have been shared with you, even if the insights you find it interesting. It could be a trap.
– Be careful with the multimedia files you open on your computer. phoneIf you have any doubts, preferably avoid doing so.
– Configure your phone so that it does not allow automatic saving of files without your prior consent authorization.
– Activate two-step verification on WhatsApp. This makes it much more difficult for your account to be stolen. account.
– Do not provide passwords and/or insights sensitive banking information TO NO ONE, even if your interlocutor assures that he requests it to name your entity financial. If you have any questions, hang up and contact your entity all with confirm la insights.
- In /// that you have been victim, report it to the Police National, doing the following:
– Document everything: Guarda all emails, text messages, documents and any other communication related to the swindle. They will serve you as experiment of the fraud.
– Report it: Inform the authorities corresponding about what happened doing your complaint formal before him Department de Research of Crimes and High Crimes Technology (DICAT), and give them copies of all the insights that you have. In the District National, its offices are located in the Catalonia Hotel, sixth floor. You can also contact by telephone at (809) 960-2932.
– Run the voiceWarn your family and friends so they don't fall into the same trap. The more people are informed, the less likely others are to be caught by cybercriminals.
Source: Superintendency of Banks
