When you receive apparently very attractive offers via WhatsApp, be suspicious! You never know who might be really sending you certain information, even if it's with your relative's number and photos.
In 2020, a security company called PSafe disclosed that 453,000 individuals had their WhatsApp counterfeited, which gives us an average of 15,000 people affected daily.
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Even if there are ways to bypass the system, criminals always follow a sequence of small steps. equal acts, which makes it possible to develop ways to protect ourselves through small changes daily. “Permission is granted to the criminal through very attractive links sent or suspicious applications” reports the specialist in information privacy and technology at BVA Advogados.
No one is completely free of something happening, but for individuals who do not master the application, they become easier and recurring targets.
As one of the coup attempts, criminals used links that would apparently make it possible to see and check their cash balances, which were abandoned in banks or other certain institutions, which in fact had been launched by the Central Bank in the last week, but used with deviation.
How to avoid
Some tips were released by BC, check out the following:
• The real site used by the bank is valuesareceber.bcb.gov.br and there is no other site, just this one.
• The BC at no time makes contact to address the receipt of values or data reaffirmation.
• There is no payment process to receive any amount through the bank
• Central Bank contact is only made to deal with the transfer of amounts when the Pix key is not provided to the institution.
I transferred money. And now?
If you have been the victim of a scam and made a transfer of a certain amount, it is important to prepare a police report as soon as possible, in addition to communicating the parent financial institution and addressee.
The complaint can be sent via email [email protected], it is necessary to disclose all the information necessary for the search contribution. In cases like this, every little detail matters.
Many retail sites are used, in addition to job opportunities, events and countless other examples to attract the citizen's attention.
Calls or messages are sent with the presence of a request to provide a certain code that appears on your screen, when typing the criminals have full access to the messages you receive on another cell phone, and so the criminal begins the procedure of approaching numerous victims.
avoid this scam
A good way out is to use the two-phase process in the messaging application, in addition to having an antivirus that will detect any threat.
Such actions do not completely extinguish the possibility of falling into a scam, however they help to protect your cell phone, other precautions must be applied, such as regularly changing passwords, not linking them to commemorative dates or cell phone numbers, reports the company's lawyer BVA.
After realizing that the coup has been applied, unlink all bank information, block cards and any digital platforms used that have any data that helps criminals.
The criminal obtains a number with the presence of the photo and the name of another person, guaranteeing to have “changed number” and claiming urgently need a certain amount of borrowed money, most of the time they pretend to be relatives or people darlings. Be careful, because at this moment you can be deceived.
Created an account that is not mine
Disclose what happened on your social networks, requesting to share it to reach as many people as possible, in addition to registering a police report. Activate your operator and report what happened, disclosing that a certain number is being used to utter scams.
Called Spyware, “hacker applications” allow a hacker – a person close to the victim – to access and view all of his/her activities on the smartphone.
That way, he has all intimate data, banking and verification codes.
Another way used by criminals is to contact the operator and claim to be the owner of the number, reporting that it was stolen. If the operator is cheated, the criminal will have full access to the WhatsApp application's phone book, in addition to the original chip now being blocked.
What to do?
Without any contact with the criminal, the victim must open a police report and report the occurrence to the telephone company so that the registration is blocked.
Law 14.155/21 condemns the execution of fraud, embezzlement, appropriation of devices for the purpose of theft, alteration and deletion of digital data, in addition to scams carried out via the WhatsApp communication application, carries a maximum penalty of 8 years prison.
