Within the last 2 weeks, many people have received an SMS asking them to follow a link , to receive some kind of reward or shipment sent without their knowledge. However, it turns out to be another phishing scam.
„Hackers rely on the naivety of future victims and their desire to receive a shipment, no matter what it is. So they send thousands of e-mails and text messages to thousands,” senior commissioner Vladimir Dimitrov, director of the “Cybersecurity” Directorate, explained to NOVA. -GDBOP.
„The main idea of hackers is to follow the link, enter your bank card details to withdraw money. It refers you to a temporary site created by them”, Commissioner Dimitrov also explained.
If we enter the bank card details and feel in time, we should immediately call the bank, he advises. If possible, the bank will block the card.
Almost every day there are also reports from victims of investment scams. These scams go on for several months. With them, the victim receives a call and is invited to invest his funds in a trading platform.
„These are completely fake platforms created by the criminals where they can fund the eventual victim's account with as much money as they want, the victim is given different bank accounts every month. The idea is that the victim sends their money to invest in this platform where a secret bot will play with the money and triple it. After one year, the victim is left without BGN 100,000-200,000, said Commissioner Dimitrov.
The replaced IBAN was also a problem, from which companies suffer.
„Very often, organized criminal groups from North Africa interfere in the correspondence of companies with their counterparty, change the bank account in which the Bulgarian company must send the next payment to its counterparty in Belgium, for example. And the Bulgarian company, deceived, sends the next BGN 100,000 to a bank account controlled by financial mules, explained Commissioner Dimitrov.