Don’t get scammed: Criminals use Facebook to ask their contacts for money

The criminals They have the city of Bogota on the streets, but they also threaten even their own privacy. Batteries! The owners of what belongs to others are also attacking the Bogota Facebook accounts to scam your contacts under the excuse of a supposed loan.

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There have been many reports of this type and RCN Radio spoke with one of the recent victims, because this Friday his personal facebook account was hacked already more than 30 of their contacts sent them a message posing as him, so that they would lend him some money urgently.

Modus operandi of stealing money from contacts

The criminals confidently greet the contacts to pretend that they are the owner of the account, and immediately ask them if they have an account in Bancolombia or Nequi so that they can lend them $100,000 urgently, an amount of money that is perhaps not an alarming figure to wake up to. suspicion in the victims, under the promise that the next day he will return the money.

Several of the people answer that of course they do, and the criminals give the number of the account to which it should be deposited.

The owner of the Facebook account became aware of the theft, because several contacts they wrote through WhatsApp that if I was in trouble or if you needed more money. It was there that he realized that his account had been stolen and when trying to enter, Facebook did not allow it nor change the password, Well, hackers have everything calculated.