The Ministry of the Interior warned of a new form of fraud through emails where the fraudsters pose as Interpol with the aim of “Illegitimately access the personal information of the victims, telephone contacts, access credentials to different platforms, banking entities and credit card data“, according to a statement published by the portfolio.
The ministry states that “mails are sent from an email whose extension is Gmail or @interpol.org” and the text of the mail accuses the recipient of child pornography, pedophilia, exhibitionism, cyberpornography and sex trafficking, in addition to saying that a judicial process was started against him. At the same time, they assure that there are also cases of attempted fraud through “social networks or instant messaging applications about holding conferences on the same subject.”
With access to the recipient’s system with virus or malware infection (malware), scammers can “perform scams, extortion and use their identity to impersonate the person so that their relatives send money abroad”adds the portfolio in the statement.
Faced with these fraud situations, the General Directorate for the Fight Against Organized Crime and INTERPOL assured that “never directly contact a citizen or ask for money, bank details or to make a transfer, much less an email whose extension is @gmail.com or @interpol.org, even though the initial part is made up of the acronym for the International Organization“.
In turn recommends users “do not access links of unknown origin, do not download attachments in emails whose sender is unknown and verify the information received in case of any doubt“.
