In the midst of the holiday season, with countless Christmas purchases, both in stores and on the Internet, a scam which tricks users into believing that a package will arrive but that the information that … you are wrong. An SMS is sent to the person’s phone to “complete the address”, with a link to a website then data begins to be requested, including the bank account: “It’s a hoax and there are people who have lost thousands of euros”. They explained it this way in ‘And now thread soles‘ (Antenna 3), with Carlos Quilez share live what to keep in mind to avoid falling into these deceptions.
To do this, this journalist specializing in investigation and events spoke with professionals from the police and state security forces, and compiled advice to take into account on these important dates, very conducive to frauds of this project. “Be a hundred times suspicious, especially if these are orders that have not even been placed. If they tell you you have a package, you should be suspicious,” he said. It’s the first.
Then, Quílez added that “files, links or documents arriving through social networks should not be opened.” Likewise, do not provide “banking information, whether from our supposed office, the bank we are a customer of, or another entity.” And always “report to the police“. In short, “be suspicious if they ask for your information or if they ask for your bank card. “It’s the only antidote that works,” he said.
On the set was a professional from the Sonsoles Ónega team, Juanfran. The presenter spoke to him, who was about to fall victim to one of these scams. “I received the message asking for my house number, as if the address was incomplete. I thought maybe I had forgotten and accepted it. I started filling in the details and when he gave me the bank card, I ended up becoming suspicious of him and realized that it was a scam,” he said. He shared it with his colleagues at “Y Ahora Sonsoles” and they all agreed that it was an attempted scam.
Carlos Quilez He finished by saying that the police report that these are organized groups who “carry out random telephone raids, in case someone reports.” At the same time, other mafias are looking specific profiles“elderly people, men or women, who live alone, who are older vulnerable» and recommends using common sense to avoid falling into the trap of these scams.
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