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Takes charge of identity by being thousands of miles away
More and more people are becoming the target of cyber scammers. Audrius Šapola, director of the Prevention Department at SEB Bank, assured that cybercrime is on the rise, but it is changing.
“In recent years, we have noticed a significant increase in cybercrime. In part, this is natural, because technologies, services, whether financial or telecommunications, are changing. Also crimes. If in the past these scams they were analogous, this means that a person came to the bank branch who presented some document, usually forged or stolen, and asked the employee to pay him money from the account.
Now, these crimes take place in cyberspace and scammers often seize the identity of their victims hundreds or even thousands of miles away, ”he says.
Recent cases are getting smarter
The interviewee also told about the latest cases of the program. According to him, cyberspace now allows scammers to operate much more efficiently than they could have, for example, a decade or more ago.
Audrius Šapola
“The financial fraud itself and its mechanics have not taken much and have changed a lot since the absence of the Internet. The very “princes of Nigeria” are still very successful today and enjoy the opportunity to reach as many of their victims as possible.
For example, if they used to send emails on plain paper about twenty years ago, now they can send thousands of emails to potential victims. You can do it cheaply, quickly and efficiently.
And when it comes to core crimes, bogus FNTT officials still call you and request that your login details be released, as well as people who buy products almost daily online. These can be goods from mobile phone to agricultural machinery, they transfer an advance when waiting for goods, it turns out that the ad was placed by scammers.
Currently, there has been a particular increase in investment fraud, with Russian-speaking callers claiming to be investment professionals and extracting money from them. Sometimes it is tens or hundreds of thousands of euros that can change people’s lives. There are also cases of romantic fraud, when men and women meet American military and businessmen on social media. So there is such a rule that your loved one gets into a whole chain of trouble, asks for financial help and the bank’s clients transfer the sums, ”said the interlocutor.
Three scam tactics
According to him, there are three main scam tactics.
“I would highlight three main scam tactics because it is important to understand that in order for a victim to follow instructions, scammers try to put their victim in a certain emotional state, and one of those states is fear. For example, a suspected civil servant FNTT calls and reports that some criminal is stealing human money.
Audrius Šapola
Naturally, people get scared, help the impostor by following his instructions, revealing connections. Another emotional state is related to the desire to get something for free. More than once you’ve had to interact with a customer who claims to have won a million in the lottery even though they didn’t even buy a lottery ticket. (…)
The third tactic is romantic feelings, when people get to know something and get in touch, and this is how requests for financial support are dealt with ”, assured the interlocutor.
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