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A person is arrested for trying to make a fraudulent phone transfer

May 01 from 2020 - 15: 02

Agents of the National Police Station in the town of Dénia have detained a 41-year-old woman of Spanish nationality while trying to make a fraudulent transfer by phone, posing as the legitimate owner of the bank account.

The detainee, allegedly made a call to a Dénia bank branch posing as another person, providing the DNI number and complete affiliation data requesting to make a transfer of 700 euros to an account. The bank employee verified the data but refused to carry out the operation, so the alleged scammer told her that she urgently needed the money and that they would provide her with a code to withdraw the amount from an ATM.

At the insistence of such a person, the branch employee carried out further verification tasks and realized that the information provided was that of a well-known habitual client, when she informed the applicant that she did not recognize her voice and was not going to perform any operation, the person on the other end of the phone cut off the communication.

Later, he made this fact known to the bank's client, who made the corresponding complaint at the Denia National Police Station.

The agents of the Judicial Police Brigade took over the investigation and quickly managed to identify the alleged author of the scam, being located and detained. The detainee was charged with the crimes of usurpation of marital status and fraud and was placed at the disposal of the Investigating Court of the
Dénia.

Other frauds via email

The National Police also alerts of possible technological frauds that try to reach the recipient by the method called "Phising", consisting of the massive sending of emails supposedly from official organizations such as the Labor Inspectorate or Social Security, in which a non-existent investigation is reported to the company, which in its case has received the email, hinting at the body of the message to the special situation in which we find ourselves at the moment.

Cyber ​​criminals use the logo of the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate to give an appearance of veracity and use an email address in the header of the message, which may make a user think that they are not
expert, that the email comes from an official body.

The false email from the official body incorporates a link, which if opened will download a file called Ransomware, which is a type of malicious malware that allows blocking or restricting access to certain parts or specific files of an operating system and basically prevents that computer can continue to be used, all with the aim of requesting a ransom, a reward or whatever another economic consideration, to give access to the system again. The promise to return control of the
system, in case of yielding to blackmail, is not fulfilled or supposes to receive new rescue requests. 

The current “ransoware” campaign detected by the National Police comes from email accounts with the domain @ itss.se, @ itss.es and @ itss.app.

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