Santa Clara.-a quick search in Facebook sale groups to realize the immense number of user publications in recent weeks to those who have cheated through a text message with a supposed transfer of transfer of balance. According to complaints in networks, both the modus operandis and the history urged by the scammers are quite similar.
In the group “Cuban Fighters” a recent victim of fraud identified as Adriana Pascual story that a person made a call with 99 after having received an SMS indicating the balance of 400 cup balance to his mobile line. “He said he was wrong because he had the son admitted and the wife needed the transfer and it happened to me twice in a row. Are pending and do not put the fool like me, ”warned the woman.
At the bottom of the complaints dozens of users confirmed that the history of the scammers coincides and generally usually appeal to the sensitivity of the victims claiming that they have an admitted relative or a “pregnant woman about to give birth.” Much of those who fall into the trap do not realize that the transfer comes from a private number and not from the official Cubacel account. The scammers copy and stick the message of “Payment by mobile” that Etecsa and then make the call to request the return of the money.
Another user named Dayanis Blanco told In a sales group in Santiago de Cuba who had cheated in a similar way to their aunt, an older person: “He told him to return the balance that was wrong and that it was to buy medications to a relative who had sick … This is already He went control and there is a trend the same with the MLC, the balance and the transfers. ”
In the middle of last year, Etecsa issued a warning On this type of balance theft: “If you receive an SMS with an alleged transfer of money and then a call requesting that you return the money, we recommend that you consult the last 10 operations in TransferMóvil to verify its authenticity, since it could be before a scam attempt. ” Also the application of electronic payments issued an alert about the increase in this new modality of fraud: “ATTENTS ALL Mobile balance, and then call people to persuade them saying that it was a mistake and that they need money back. This is completely false, ”said the statement released in August on his Telegram channel.
However, so far no official medium has spoken about the measures taken against these balance scammers despite being a trend of more than a year ago. A Mayabeque Radio Facebook post warns that it is a set of manipulation techniques used by cybercounts who achieve empathy in their victims and notes that they would be violating article 50 of the Constitution, but about the response to complaints, the publication is limited to adding that “when they are notified These fraud behaviors, national specialists are responsible for making the corresponding analyzes. ”
Also another newspaper report 26 Of the tunas acknowledges that “it is very little that can be done after the transfer, because although it is from deception, people have moved the balance or funds voluntarily” and that “that is why the orientations from the institutionality are focus on prevention. ” The medium note only recommends blocking the private number that sends the message of the alleged transfer.
An Etecsa worker in Villa Clara contacted by Cubanet He assures that, although many users usually go to the offices to report the scam in anonymity. “Although receiving the complaints is not part of my work content I know that they call more than three people per day by raising the same affectation.”
