The Crio. Diosnel Alarcón, head of Computer Crime of the National Police, warned citizens that cybercriminals continue to defraud and therefore provided recommendations to avoid falling into the “you won a prize” deception.
In an interview with radio 650 AM, the commissioner Diosnel Alarcon highlighted that the deceit and extortion of the cybercriminals they do not stop, and that they are always innovating to deceive and extract money from the victims.
“It is a little more complex in some cases, but in others, with text messages, emails, calls, that modality persists. You have to distrust everything. If I receive links or something about prizes or promotions, it is better to call the bank and ask“he advised.
Thus, he also recommended that when contacting a particular person about a product offered on social networks, it is advisable to receive it first and then pay, not to do so in advance.
Regarding how scammers manage to convince via calls or messages, Alarcón pointed out that currently Criminals obtain a lot of information from their victims through networks and the Internet.
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“We have to take into account when publishing certain photographs, see what is behind the image, for example the background of my house (appliances, vehicles) and take care of those details that we are going to be publishing. We have to take a little more care of that information, which is the main thing for these people. The first thing that a criminal uses is information, with that they convince in scams ”, she deepened.
On the other hand, the researcher highlighted that the sextortions (sex scams) have decreased a bit, after the different operations carried out, but he warned that it still persists. “It is important that they make their complaints so that we can carry out our procedure. If you once agreed to the payment, they will increase the pressure and even threatening once the messages they want are answered,” he said. For this reason, he recommended not responding, blocking and reporting.
