Phishing, vishing, spamming, scamming. Words that have appeared in recent years and all have a common denominator the business of deceiving unsuspecting citizens with the aim of removing personal information and ultimately money. As EL.AS officers note in "NEA"., in addition to the usual forms of telephone fraud on the pretext that a relative had a car accident, need money for emergency surgery or debt service, its appearance in our country has made a new one, international form of fraud, the so-called Wangiri - method of a single ring.
In this case, as noted by experienced officials of the Authorities, scammers seek citizens to call these high-charge numbers. Usually, not, these numbers start with codes of foreign countries, such as 0035, 0040, 0044 and 0049. The experts who set this trap create a system through which dozens of random number calls are made..
High charge calls
As "NEA" writes, each call is heard only once and then displayed as unanswered on the recipient's phone. The call is usually made during business hours or at night to reduce the chance of the unsuspecting citizen answering. Users seeing the number and considering it a legal call call the number again resulting in a high charge to his account, with the perpetrators benefiting financially. The longer the telephone call lasts, the higher the charge will be.
In some cases, the voice on the other end of the line informs the unsuspecting citizen that he has won a prize, however most often the slightest is not heard for several seconds. In other cases the scammers pretend to be software company technicians who, supposedly wanting to protect the computer, the victim victim's tablet or mobile phone, ask to be allowed to install special software and thus gain access to sensitive data, such as bank account numbers, ΑΦΜ κ.ο.κ. also, have access to personal photos or videos, then blackmailing their owners not to publish the files.
Monkey investments
There are also cases of strangers calling to try to persuade the recipient of the call to invest money.. Indicative of this method is the complaint that recently saw the light of day, according to which a citizen received calls from companies that allegedly offered cryptocurrency investment services and while they were asked to stop communicating they insisted, using different numbers, company names and logos. The numbers showed that the calls came mainly from Britain, with the "investment advisor" speaking Greek (sometimes split), saying it represents an investment firm, while stubbornly concealing how he was found in possession of the details of the would-be victim.
On a website where there are reports of "annoying phone numbers" hiding scams, in fact, another citizen typically mentioned for the same number that the callers threaten that if you do not deposit money they will continue the telephone harassment.
This practice, known as vishing - comes from the combination of the words voice (voice) and phising ("fishing") - is a form of deception that also has the phone as a "Trojan horse", with criminals looking for a way to steal personal and financial data from citizens, typically using telephone numbers from abroad (mainly European countries). When the recipient of the call answers, hears on the other end of the line someone who under various pretexts tries to persuade him to give him information in order to gain access to his bank account.
Bulk mails
As reported by the executives of the Cybercrime Prosecution, "phishing" is usually done by sending bulk spam e-mails which allegedly come from an existing and legal company, such as a bank, e-shop, electronic payment service and so on. To be believed, not, format the messages in such a way that they resemble those sent by banks, use bank logos and use terminology that gives the sense of urgency.
Executives of EL.AS., after all, emphasize that the smart ones are based on the fact that the target citizens are busy and in a hurry and therefore can more easily "fall" into the internet trap that they have set for them.. Their purpose is to mislead the recipient and to "fish" personal and financial data. In order to achieve their goal, they ask the recipient to visit immediately a website where he has to enter his personal data.. In this way they gain direct access to the bank account of the person who cheated.
In any case of deception, executives of EL.AS., through the "NEW", advise citizens to be especially careful and if they have received telephone harassment from numbers abroad to inform the mobile phone company and the authorities. Citizens should refrain from giving their details, especially if it is sensitive data, such as bank account numbers.
Source: aftodioikisi.gr
