Cardinal Baltazar Porras denounced that they have been making calls on his behalf to priests abroad to ask for money. He said that his phone has been violated and asked the public to be aware of it.
The Archdiocese of Caracas reported on its social networks on the night of Thursday, June 5 that the mobile phone of the Bishop of Mérida and apostolic administrator of the capital instance, Cardinal Baltazar Porras, was hacked and that they carry out telephone scams on his behalf.
According to the message in Twitter of the Archdiocese, unknown subjects pose as Cardinal Porras to ask for money from priests who live abroad. In this sense, he thanked the people who know about the case, denounce it and asked people to be careful not to fall for this scam.
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They cloned this phone to me, ignore any request for money. Thanks
— Cardinal Baltazar Porras (@bepocar) January 5, 2023
URGENT: Telephone number of the Movistar operator of Cardinal Baltazar Porras @bepocar he was cloned and they are posing as His Eminence in requesting money from priests abroad.
Please be alert to this criminal act and not fall for this scam pic.twitter.com/hnIPfCwymk
– Archdiocese of Caracas (@ArquiCaracas) January 5, 2023
The director of the Criminal and Criminal Scientific Investigation Corps (Cicpc), Douglas Rico, said that crime has decreased at “very important” levels. He indicated that criminals have gone from committing violent acts to carrying out scams and computer crimes, modalities that increased after the covid-19 pandemic.
The December 3 in an interview with VTV He assured that “they are not made up figures.” Despite acknowledging that criminal acts “will never disappear,” he asserted that the authorities are working to reduce and control them through complaints.
For several months, different modus operandi of telephone fraud have arisen in Venezuela and harmed citizens. One of the most notorious are the messages through WhatsApp mentioning that they are people with names like “Ana” or “María”, who are actually deprived of liberty making these contacts, to steal money.
Then, with the phishing modality (by clicking on a link data theft is allowed), it has been recorded that users must resort to other ways of communicating that they have been hacked and that they are not requesting money, as was the case with Cardinal Baltazar Porras.
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