Capital District, Bogotá
Sunday, February 25, 2024
11 raids have been carried out so far in 2024, managing to seize more than 340 items including cell phones, SIM cards, sharp weapons and diaries with information on potential victims.
Bogotá. D.C. The National Police has been developing strategies to provide citizens with tools that minimize the risk of being victims of cyber scams; and in turn capture criminal gangs dedicated to extortion and kidnapping through social networks, through the ‘false service’ extortive kidnapping modality, taking into account that during the year 2023, 664 extortionists dedicated to this criminal modality were captured and in In 2024, 74 people have been captured. All this, because today informal job offers proliferate.
Prevention days have been developed, with a preventive and operational deployment by the National Police in order to guide and recommend to merchants and the community in general about the security and self-protection measures that they should take against extortion methods. , identifying the origin of the possible business or company that contacts them; Since, during the year 2023, 43 incidents of kidnapping were reported using this modality, in 86% of the cases the timely reaction of the authorities was achieved thanks to the timely complaint of the people.
In addition, police intelligence work has made it possible in 2024 to significantly reduce the criminal rate of fraud and digital extortion, preventing victims from paying millionaire sums of money to these criminal organizations, who commit crimes particularly from prison centers. Their method of extortion is analyzed: contacting the person requesting or offering supposed products or services (grocery, construction, heavy machinery, veterinary, surveying, among others) creates a false sense of trust and then makes them move to a specific point and Therefore they retain them and later demand money for their ransom.
Remember not to disclose personal information on your social networks, this can be used against you. If you are hired to provide your services, call back at different times of the day, it may be prison extortion. If you are contacted to provide your services, sell or buy a product and you must travel to certain sectors of the country, activate the location system of your electronic devices. Inform family or friends about your movements so that they are alert to your movements and if any incident related to kidnapping or extortion occurs, report it immediately through GAULA line 165.
2024-02-25 17:43:56
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