In fact, in recent months this is something that the National Police providing a series of measures to avoid falling into deception. We must keep in mind that the telephone scams They have become something quite common that we must be alert to. Hence, the State Security Forces are now warning about a new system that we must avoid at all costs.
As you can imagine, technology plays a very important role here, something that malicious actors use to their advantage. Specifically, this new scam through which we can lose our money, and it is carried out through a simple phone call that we receive on our mobile. All this is achieved through a method that has been called spoofing.
How you can lose your money with a call
At first we found that we received a call from our usual bank. Furthermore, the problem here is that the phone number that we see on the screen of our mobile phone corresponds to that of the original bank. Hence, a priori we trust the call we are receiving.
Once we pick up the phone, the first thing a voice tells us is not to say out loud the access code to our accounts. In order to operate, it is better that we type on the keyboard of our mobile terminal the password to our bank user. Obviously, since it is not a hidden number and we see the bank’s phone number on the screen, the scam gains our trust.
But we must keep in mind that in reality we are facing a phone number spoofing that is trying to take our access codes to the bank and, therefore, steal our money. Once we type the corresponding access digits of our password, criminals are able to extract it to get our access password.
From there you will have the possibility of entering our accounts and carrying out all types of operations in them.
Avoid becoming a victim of spoofing
Therefore, this means that we should not trust it if we receive a call of these characteristics. What’s more, the National Police warns us that the moment we receive a call from the bank and hear those words, we should hang up immediately. Furthermore, to all this we must add that our bank will never ask us for access codes to our accounts. Neither through a phone call, nor using a SMS or email.
Always, in case of doubt, the best thing we can do is contact our bank to confirm the veracity of that call or the message received. Prevention is better than cure and we should never provide our access codes to digital banking of our entity.