Police warn of new WhatsApp scam with foreign number: don’t bite!
Cybercriminals are constantly looking for every possible way to try to get money or bank details of his victims. And they use any excuse for this. Fortunately, in recent years, security forces such as National Police They have taken advantage of the momentum that social media offers them to raise public awareness so that we can be alert to any signs that could lead to possible fraud.
Recently, a group of cyber scammers have been discovered who are posing as supposed pimps and demanding us to pay a certain amount of money through a WhatsApp message. If we don’t do this, they will continue to try, even threatening us physically.
Foreign numbers
He Tik Tok video The National Police begins by warning us to take extreme precautions if we receive a message on our mobile phone from a foreign number that we are not registered in our address book. The video shows how it was received via WhatsApp, but it could also be that we received it via a regular SMS, so in both cases we must be especially careful.
@police Alleged pimps tell you that you are harassing their girls and demand payment under threats #scam #police #security #police #scam
♬ original sound – National Police
The message begins with obvious formal tone and he is subsequently identified as “agency manager girl” and then begins to say that we have disturbed some of them and that we have accumulated several reports. A situation that forced him to intervene to reach an agreement. This is an alleged pimp who is trying to get what he wants through threats. We will make a money transfer. If this is not done, the consequences can be very serious, they say.
Threats against our family
If we don’t pay, as the police themselves warn, we will be threatened threaten our own safety or that of our family. However, there is no reason to worry. And, as we see in the video, this is a group of scammers who are trying to scare us and take advantage of this fear to easily get money.
What should we do if we receive this type of message? The police make it clear: we shouldn’t bite. In fact, we should delete the message without replying to anyone and then block it to avoid further receiving these types of annoying messages.
Moreover, if finally we were deceived We have to go to the nearest police station to report this and try to get our money back. In this case, it is important to try to collect as much evidence as possible in order to have more options, which will ultimately lead to identifying the scammers and starting the necessary procedure to try to get our money back.