All kinds of offers, promotions and solutions to financial needs appear on the internet, but be very careful because the remedy can be worse than the disease, you could be the victim of a new form of extortion: the drop by drop
People are falling more and more into the networks of criminals. This type of virtual drip is appearing on different platforms in social networks.
Such is the case of a woman who asked for $300,000 and ended up paying $480,000. But, once she received the money, death threats came.
“They lent me 300,000 pesos, that was in a matter of 10 minutes. They told me I had 90 days to pay it off, perfect. Exactly 9 days passed and they began to call me to say that they already The payment time had expired, which I had to pay because because it was nine days, what 90 days. He was a super threatening person. A man began to say terrible things to me, to be rude, vulgar, and then my ordeal began,” explained the victim of this extortion.
In addition, he says that “they began to call my contacts, to call the people closest to me, my work, my relatives… my mother was in delicate health at that time. They almost killed her saying that they were going to kill me, that they were going to send her the ashes in a box”.
The extortion victim not only lost money, but also lost peace of mind. This is a new modality that the authorities have detected.
“We have found a new criminal modality that we have called ‘virtual drop by drop’, consisting of users being provided with small sums of money on loan, but then the entire amount is demanded through intimidating and extortion calls,” he says. Carlos Manuel Silva, sectional director of Cundinamarca Prosecutor’s Offices.
What to do to avoid falling into these virtual drip networks?
In order not to fall into these networks, it is highly recommended to people who do not believe in these benefits and in those generosities of these applications that offer money loans.
How do these virtual drip platforms work?
In approximately 10 minutes, people already had access to loans, which are very small. These applications are delivered by the perpetrators to be installed on different devices and when installed they are allowing access to their contacts and all their personal information.
Death threats have even been detected…
Unfortunately we have had information of some death threats if they do not agree to the exaggerated payments requested by these director victimizers.
The Cundinamarca Prosecutor’s Office has evidenced 543 cases in the last year of this virtual drop by drop. About 10 complaints are arriving weekly.
