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User with mobile phone
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The scam began to circulate in October 2021 with the aim of obtaining the scammed personal data to impersonate his identity
The scammer starts a guessing game until the WhatsApp user gives him a name that is familiar to him
The Police ask users not to “bite” in the deception
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The Granada Local Police has warned again through his official Twitter account of the ‘distant relative’ scam that is circulating through the social network WhatsApp. It is a message in which the scammers are pose as a distant relative which, supposedly, is found in a hurry and asks for help to “return to Spain.”
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A new digital scam that began to circulate in October 2021 and which was already echoed by the police authorities to alert WhatsApp users that its authors were trying to get personal data of the person who received the message for impersonate your identity. To do this, they asked for the name, address and phone number of the scammed.
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“We already warned, but scammers keep trying to trick us by writing to us on WhatsApp saying they are familiar to those we haven’t seen for a long time. Don’t sting, they only want to gain your trust so that you send them money. “, explains the message of the Local Police of Granada, which attach an example from someone affected by this scam that begins as if it were a guessing game: “Guess who writes you from abroad“.
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We already warned, but scammers continue to try to deceive us by writing to us on WhatsApp saying that they are familiar to those we have not seen for a long time.
Don’t bite, they just want to earn your trust so you can send them money. pic.twitter.com/NUdlsC4LVB– LOCAL POLICE GRANADA (@PoliciaGr) December 29, 2021
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In this case, the WhatsApp user who receives the message is not fooled and responds flatly that “he has no relatives abroad” and that “if he does not tell him who it is, he will block it”, in addition to threatening to “put it on hands of the authorities “, so the scammer stops harassing him with the messages, although that will not prevent him from trying again with another person until you achieve your goal.
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