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Carolina Solomon
Criminals stole the businessman’s phone number, duplicated his WhatsApp account and tried to extort money from people on his contact list.
The delegate of the State Attorney General’s Office, Rodrigo Cháirez Zamora, confirmed that this is the only case that has been registered in this regard and in which, fortunately, no bank transfer or money provision was made.
“The report is that his WhatsApp account had been duplicated and that with his name they were contacting the people he had in his phone book to request money,” he explained.
He mentioned that the recommendations made by the cyber police of the State Prosecutor’s Office is the verification of their WhatsApp accounts by OS and Android, in addition to increasing security in terms of handling their social networks and limiting the use of WIFI networks in public places.
“The recommendation is to stay alert, keep your phone restricted and apply the so-called security patches, many people do not have the precaution when an update of their phone arrives, the ideal is to opt for the update of the phone that these are security levels that they implement the same brands of cell phones or the companies that present the phone service, “he said.
He indicated that as far as they know, no bank transfer was made, “the reports are in the sense that they approached a person making him believe of course that it was a known person but at least from the communication we had apparently none was made. disposition of money ”.
One of the biggest slips that affect phone lines or cell phones is adding contacts that we don’t know and opening all the files we receive without caution.
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