If you have Messenger, surely you have received a message days ago asking if it was you who appeared in a video. They were trying to open the video to see each other and it wouldn’t open and it seemed a bit weird. Indeed, it was weird, it was a trick to take over his Facebook account and do no one knows what wrongdoing. Fortunately, from Facebook they warned you right away, they begged you to change your password and there were no more problems.
It is not known whether this deception is behind some pornographic videos starring acquaintances from Extremadura, fake videos in which cybercriminals make a montage with the photos uploaded to Facebook by innocent citizens. These porn scenes are sent to the scammers asking for between 5,000 and 10,000 euros. If they pay, they assure that they will eliminate them, if they do not pay, they will move through the networks and then you start denying that you star in that movie X.
Server has fallen for the deception of the video in which it appeared, but I have escaped being a porn actor. A couple of years ago, I clicked on a fake message from the Post Office, a virus encrypted all the files on my work computer and they asked me for a fee to release them. Fortunately, I had a copy and I was saved.
Worse has been what has happened to Sonia Flores, who told, in a report by Ángela Murillo in TODAY, how cybercriminals duplicated her phone’s SIM card, asked for a credit of 6,750 euros in her name and began to buy cryptocurrencies with that money. When she found out, she broke down to discover how helpless she was in the face of cybercrime.
In the first six months of 2021, 70% more computer crimes have been committed in Spain than in all of 2020. This dark world already moves more money than drug trafficking: 5.5 billion euros last year. The pattern of these crimes is always the same: the operation is designed and executed abroad and in Spain there are the collaborators, who receive the money in accounts in exchange for a percentage of between 5 and 10%, withdraw it and they send abroad through cryptocurrency companies.
To prevent these crimes and not become victims, we must always be alert. Sometimes, you are in the heat of any work or leisure activity, an email arrives communicating something as simple as that they have not been able to leave you a package that you expected and that to coordinate the delivery you must visit a website. A reflex action pushes you to click and you’re already busy. We must be alert even when it is impossible to be and not provide data to strangers by phone, SMS or email. The experience of the police shows that we provide personal information too easily.
In the networks, there are even tutorials on how to commit cyber scams. There is a fundamental word that opens all doors or all computers and it is ‘urgency’. As soon as that noun appears, we get nervous and give it our all. It is read, above all, in fake emails from banks that ask us to urgently click on an attached file so that they do not block our account. They also send us urgent offers of magnificent jobs or notices from courier companies so that we can urgently pick up a package by clicking on a link.
Other variants of urgent hooks are traffic fines with the DGT mark, a refund from the Treasury, a call from a known number or the notice that an unknown device has connected to our account and to discover it we must click. . urgently.
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