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Are being warned by FBI about dangerous text messages sent by Chinese groups. You may be familiar with some of those who claim that you are obligatory to the tool that you have forgotten to pay, or inform you that you need to pay a package that was sent to you but it was never picked up. These scams do more harm than you pay $ 7. The purpose is to show your personal information when you pay, when you ask to add login credentials related to your banking and other financial apps.
But these are old attacks. The latest and rapidly growing digital scam
According to the police in Louisiana’s Green (Referring to the FBI) is a “rumor, wrong number” scheme. Someone else is addressed (not you) on your phone about a business meeting, a doctor’s appointment, or just getting a friendly at a local bookstore. The scammers are counting on the victim’s “apologies, wrong numbers” to return to the attacker with friendly conversations.
Once a stranger promotes himself with you, they want to start friendship or even a romance relationship.
According to the Green Police Department“This is a discount that you designed to rest your distrust so that you can become more susceptible to their scams, such as cryptocurrency investment or many other victims.” Although the scammers are trying to show that they mistakenly started contacting you by mistake, the police say they use “sophisticated technology” to try to cheat you.
Warning about the rapidly growing digital scam by the Green Police Department. | Image Credit Green Police Department
This type of attack is called “social engineering” in which people are manipulated to do some work or to tell personal information. The “wrong number” angle is the key to working the attack, which is why these texts usually begin under a name that is not yours. Scammers are trusting you to take notice of it and respond to the text saying that the text has gone to the wrong person. The conversation has ended and the scammers have several ways to tap you on a link, or mistakenly show your password or login information for your financial apps.
The attackers want you to be attracted to the conversation with them because if you join some of the texts backwards, you can mistakenly explain personal information. As a result, your best condition is to simply ignore and delete whatever text you receive.
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