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Another case of the victim of the incredible fraud via SMS brings to light the protothema.gr and refers to a citizen in Heraklion of Crete, from which hackers stole 12,000 euros from your bank account, using the same method as A citizen was “beaten” in Pieria, “Losing” 18,530 euros.
The freelancer received a text message on his mobile phone with a sender (it seems to be) a bank informing him that his card had supposedly been deactivated and he should, following the instructions in link, to activate it again.
the link It took him to a website that looked like the website of the bank from which he had received the sms. The victim took the steps by entering the username and password for her bank account. The experts managed to snatch him, thus, about 12,000 euros.
Sfakianakis: What should people pay attention to?
The victim addressed Lieutenant General ea Manoli Sfakianaki, researcher, cybercrime analyst, president and founder of the International Cyber Security Institute (CSI Institute), who spoke at protothema.gr on this topic, he said: “He received a text message that was misleading and said ‘enter the codes to activate your card’. By putting the codes in the link, the criminals transferred 12,000 euros. The Internet user and especially the bank customer should know two things, first that banks keep our money but users do not know how to protect themselves from scammers. The problem is with bank customers and not with banks. For this reason, every customer who has electronic banking should know that no bank will ask put codes on the Internet or by message. The bank will call you. Everything else is bad. Besides, people must be careful because we do not give codes by phone or by email. “People are completely ignorant, they are electronic illiterate because nobody You have educated them and these people give their passwords blank via text message or email or even over the phone. “
According to Mr. Sfakianakis, CSI receives telephone complaints every day, while a similar fraud was found a few days ago with the victim being a supermarket employee, who was watching Netflix and you received a message asking you to pay Netflix by entering your credit card details. “The girl put in her card and they took away her daily credit limit, which was 650 euros. But the girl quickly realized the fraud and called us and told her the movements she had to make and the bank managed to block the money two hours later. “Because this money is not immediately sent from the victim’s account to the scammer’s.”
In order not to be a victim of fraud, the user must, as Mr. Sfakianakis points out Activate the bank service that informs you via message and email about the movements of your accounts so that you know at all times what is happening with your bank accounts. If you see that a stranger has entered your account, you must immediately inform the bank to block the movements. “
Furthermore, Mr. Sfakianakis emphasizes that there are many cases of sim swapping fraud. As he explained, scammers using malware steal passwords and personal data with which they then go to a mobile phone store and cheat employees and get SIM cards which they then activate and then “We are losing access to the mobile phone and this may be a sign that someone has been the victim of fraud.” “But these types of scams have stopped because mobile phone companies immediately understood the problem and stopped issuing SIM cards with authorizations if they don’t first certify the person who wants to get the SIM.”
Another important element in the management of tactics, as explained by Mr. Sfakianakis, is the following: “Banks should consider a system that has to do with not being able to change the phone number and send the bank messages to the fraudulent phone number. Change the process of changing the phone number in the electronic banking data of each user. To make a change, the user must be identified by the banks. “
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