Captain Wladimir González, head of the cybercrime division of the Judicial Investigation Directorate (DIJ) gave recommendations to the population about the different forms of fraud through social networks and web pages, offering promotions well below prices with the order for people to deposit money and steal their money
“In general, the main form of scam is through the sale of cell phones, video consoles, televisions where they offer very attractive offers asking for deposits in advance, you do not deposit money until you make sure that it is not a scam, not everything that comes out on social networks is true “said González
I also emphasize that recently there has been a lot of promotion of renting beach houses at prices well below the original price for these national holiday dates where the person deposits his money and when he arrives at the place it turns out that he was scammed.
According to the Attorney General’s Office, the statistics of computer crime cases until July 2022 have had a rebound of 421%, while in the last six years, the highest incidence of cybercrimes was in 2021 with 794 complaints, of which 68% were fraud.
On how to detect these criminal groups that are managed through social networks, Gonzalez said: “What helped us a lot are the statements of people about the modus operandi of these groups, the indications that come to us in the complaints, this is from a lot of help to investigators to find the masterminds of this type of scam”
