the dangerous scam that already exists in Europe

Cybercriminals are increasingly looking for different ways to try to get their hands on users’ information and passwords or trick them into falling for a scam in order to send them money. In Europe, The alarm has already been sounded several times. due to these types of scam attempts, and if they have anything in common, it is that it is important not to play into the hands of cybercriminals.

From time to time, new methods are discovered by which criminals try to scam us, and one of the last ones is via a call in which, after picking up, a voice tells us to add it to WhatsApp to communicate something important through the application. Something that clearly cannot be trusted.

Without going any further, at EL ESPAÑOL – El Androide Libre we have already received one of those calls which, as in other scam attempts, try to play with the sense of urgency which attempts to generate the possible victim. Unlike other cases, this time the prefix was a Spanish number.

This is how this scam works

Many Internet users have already received one of these calls, which, of course, are not with good intentions. In our case, as soon as we picked up the phone, a voice started ringing which, after introducing itself, said that it had something important to say, but that it could not send us a message. message, after which he asked that we be the ones to write on WhatsApp to the same number from which the call is made.

Everything indicates that the voice was not human, but it did not seem artificial either, which is why the use of tools recreating a natural tone of voice thanks to artificial intelligence is likely. This human tone gives it greater credibilitybut still, you should not trust.

With what he communicates to us, he expects us to write via WhatsApp to the same number that called us, and This is where the attempted scam would begin., either to steal our data or to try to get us to transfer money to them. This is why we must be particularly careful when an unknown person or number speaks to us in a hurry and tries to make us feel a certain sense of urgency, because, usually, this will be an attempted scam.

In these cases, the best thing we can do is hang up immediately and do nothing that is asked of us. After all, if someone wants to tell us something and calls us, it’s because they have our number, so I would have no problem sending a message or saying it on the calldirectly.

Unlike other methods, like the son method, in this case we were given names and no type of family member or situation was called out. Cybercriminals are therefore less likely to make a mistake if they call someone who does not have children, for example, and This encourages more people to fall into deception.