Beware of scammers
- Written by Yanela Ruiz González
- Published in Opinion
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In recent times, it has become much more common to hear or see complaints on social networks about the unscrupulous behavior of those who want to live at the expense of making easy money, with sophisticated methods that make them difficult to detect.
Scammers, people lacking moral values, create a familiarity that allows them to interact comfortably, with an ability to convince others. It is enough to analyze each of the “modus operandi” to realize the different ways in which they try to carry out their scam.
False messages about non-existent mobile balance transfers, is among the most common methods that scammers use in their behavior.
But there are those who are more skilled and through a conversation they agree on a non-face-to-face transfer with the complicity of third parties. The person who is going to be scammed, authenticated in its payment gateway and ready to carry out the operation with the amount spoken, proceeds upon receiving confirmation by an audio message, but never receives the amount.
The use of platforms like Enzona to obtain personal information and operate with it. When negotiating a sale, they convince the person that they are going to transfer the money first this way, but they make the condition that they need a group of information: the identification card number, screenshot of the card, cryptographic matrix or Remote Banking and the last ten operations, specific data that they use to create a profile on this gateway, operate on it as if they were the owner and appropriate the money.
If the victim does not cancel the card later, they continue using that profile with those data to scam others and then the person who was already scammed is involved in other events of this type, without having committed the crime.
Scams in dollar transmissions abroad, impersonating identities. After obtaining information about the person who will receive the money, the scammer impersonates him and induces the transfer to be made. To do this, he uses various tricks, which even involves changing the WhatsApp number.
Sale of non-existent tickets through fictional agencies. How many have arrived at the airport and when they carry out the procedures there they find out that there are no such apparently reserved tickets?
In this case, even the person in charge of promotion and sales is scammed, since it is used to show his/her face to clients and promote sales, but it is not the one who receives the money, resulting in an induced victim of the scam.
These events occur throughout Cuba and multiply during economic crisis and fluctuations in the value of the dollar.
We must become more literate in the use of digital payments and be careful with our money. Let's realize that not even the banking institutions to which we have our cards associated know the coordinates of our cryptographic matrix, if we provide it to another we are already generating the possibility of a criminal act occurring against our assets.
Scammers do not proceed with anything that could incriminate them, they mask themselves in false profiles, in bank cards or telephone lines that are not in their name. We must be aware of legal responsibility for assets in our name.
