The National Police already fights the last modality of frauds and scams by networks and mobile phones.His name is Vishing and starts when we receive a call to the mobile phone.A kind voice announces that we have been beneficiaries of a promotion or that they can return money that they have retained by mistake.Who speaks to us says that he works for our bank or in a shopping center where we buy furniture years ago.
"They use personal voice calls to gain the trust of the victims," explains Commissioner José García-Serrano, responsible for the Brigade against the Fraud of the Central Cybercrime Unit of the National Police.The scammers thus get the victim itself to give them their personal, banking and even home data.
One of the viewing modalities detected by the police during the Coronavirus pandemic serves to enter and steal the victims' houses.Someone calls us to the mobile and tells us that, because of our faithfulness, an old furniture that we bought years ago will repair us for years.The objective is to send those supposed employees to open the doors of the houses and then steal them.
Databases
How do that information that viewing do?Commissioner García-Serrano explains it: "The crimes on the web are a translation of those that were previously done in the physical world.Some continue to bichhe (watching) physically the mailboxes of the portals and know if there are ads or purchases of old furniture.In other cases, they hear things, get information and can even have access to store client databases thanks to some former employees ".
It is not easy to follow the track of Vishing networks.The National Police has dismantled two in recent months, which are pending trial.The phone number from which he calls us who wants to scam us is "masked".That is, on the screen of our mobile a normal number appears, nothing suspicious, but it is false."It is another, random number, which is not in anyone's name.The criminals get it thanks to mobile applications, "adds the commissioner.
Gas and light
Vishing is also being used for gas and light scams.The criminals again get customer databases of an electric company.Then they call, almost always restaurants, on days of a lot of clientele, almost always Saturdays."They are told that several receipts have pending and that, if they don't pay the 1.200 euros, they cut the light at that time.Many pay to avoid the mess and immediate losses, "says García-Serrano
And in the country of picaresca it is already being the case of the double visging, such as the video that illustrates this report.Police arrested a man who offered electronic material on a web page.The first scam was that he did not deliver the material that his victims paid.The second was the strict viewing.With the information that his victims had given him to buy the alleged devices, he already had his mobile phone numbers.Then, after a few days, I called them."We know that they have been victims of a scam.Please, we need your online banking data to proceed to your reimbursement ".Thus, I used that data to reload money on your credit cards.There were hundreds of victims, more than two thousand complaints.