Post by akabborakabbor on Feb 13, 2024 8:46:25 GMT
Scams for winning prizes often appear in advertising popups on websites, messaging applications of social networks, and SMS messages. Even a scam call to win prizes. These messages prey on the greed of users advertising to win valuable prizes. As technology in the 4.0 era increasingly develops, tricks to misappropriate property are increasingly increasing. According to the Commander of the Crime Prevention Police Department, using high technology: social networks with applications develop many utilities, helping to identify people who use the same application and link with each other.
Taking advantage of these utilities, bad actors have exploited personal information, gender, and grasped users' preferences and living habits for criminal activities... to appropriate property. OTT message content always mentions the issue Ghana Telemarketing Data of the account owner and the subscriber who won the prize. Prizes can be vouchers used in place of cash, clothing items or even artifacts (motorbikes, smartphones, etc.). Specifically, the bad guy will announce that you have won a lucky prize and request to verify the prize owner's information, asking the user to visit a website to enter information and then request a transfer to pay the fees.
From there, bad guys take advantage of users' gullibility to exploit personal information, OTP codes, bank accounts, etc. Or request fees to receive prizes, shipping fees, prize conversion, etc. Not only stopping at the level of simple fraud, bad guys also use names, images as well as operating license information of the company that owns the OTT application, this is a violation of the law and agencies. The investigation is still underway but there are still signs of spread. Although the fraud method is not really sophisticated, with a large number of users of OTT applications and all social classes, many gullible users will be taken advantage of by bad guys.
Taking advantage of these utilities, bad actors have exploited personal information, gender, and grasped users' preferences and living habits for criminal activities... to appropriate property. OTT message content always mentions the issue Ghana Telemarketing Data of the account owner and the subscriber who won the prize. Prizes can be vouchers used in place of cash, clothing items or even artifacts (motorbikes, smartphones, etc.). Specifically, the bad guy will announce that you have won a lucky prize and request to verify the prize owner's information, asking the user to visit a website to enter information and then request a transfer to pay the fees.
From there, bad guys take advantage of users' gullibility to exploit personal information, OTP codes, bank accounts, etc. Or request fees to receive prizes, shipping fees, prize conversion, etc. Not only stopping at the level of simple fraud, bad guys also use names, images as well as operating license information of the company that owns the OTT application, this is a violation of the law and agencies. The investigation is still underway but there are still signs of spread. Although the fraud method is not really sophisticated, with a large number of users of OTT applications and all social classes, many gullible users will be taken advantage of by bad guys.