Just a few days ago, Osakidetza and the Civil Guard alerted on the method of a group of thieves to go into the housing and done with the belongings of other people. A method that consisted in impersonating workers from the Red Cross and go house to house under the premise that they are doing tests to control the coronavirus. All of this with a specific objective: to access the interior of the housing and take the most valuable of the same.
Several days later, the story repeats itself. The National police has warned, through his Twitter accounton a new scam that aims to gain money from, primarily, older people. Taking advantage of the confinement of the families in their homes on the occasion of the COVID-19, a small group of people has decided to re-donning the costume of the toilets with the intention of defrauding third persons.
This is the latest scam
On this occasion, as reported from the National Police, the fake health the doorbell by explaining that they are doing a control routine to cope with the coronavirus. After talking about the spread of the virus, the scammers will ask you all the notes and coins to proceed to clean them and end up like that with the virus from the root. However, it is not more than a new type of scam that aims to keep your money.
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We have seen cases of false health that go to homes of the elderly and ask them for all the notes and coins to be contagious
Also phone calls from fake health to inspect homes
➡️NOT TO OPEN THE DOOR AND IGNORE THESE CALLS pic.twitter.com/GyZHE7gOQl
— Policía Nacional (@policia) March 16, 2020
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But it is not the only one. Through this tweet, from the National Police also warn about the increase of scams that come from people who seeking access to homes to inspect homes. For that same reason, and if you get a call from these features, from the bodies of security you are asked to not do or case: “don’t open the door, and obvious these calls”.
If you receive this message, or if
Taking advantage of the current situation, a group of cybercriminals has developed a scam that has spread through messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, by that will try to sell facial masks at an excessive price. All of this through a message, that you will receive from someone posing as the Ministry of Health, in which you’ll be offered several recommendations for addressing the coronavirus: “it Is very important that you follow the protection measures
Together with this message, cybercriminals will send you the URL of a web page from which you can buy the masks in question: “Alert for coronavirus. Urgent message from the Ministry of Health. Please citizen collaboration and maximum dissemination of this message. I share in your groups WhatsApp and your social networks! You can save lives!”
However, it is no more than an attempt by a group of scammers to take advantage of the alert social. For that same reason, and if you get a message from these features, nor case. So it is only a scam that aims to take advantage of a situation as the crisis of the coronavirus to take your money. In case you do not know if you are before a message is fake or real, check official sources or the media, where you can discover, in a matter of seconds, of its truthfulness.
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