Given the increase inscams when making bank transfers Through the application of the Central Bank of Cuba, Transfermóvil, a Cuban made a video demonstrating how criminals carry out this type of theft.
The userCarlos Ernesto Cordero Batista, accompanied the video on the social network Facebook with a description saying that it was a “scam attempt recorded in real time.”
The young man warned his followers to observe the modus operandi of those he called "lividores", and asked that they not be fooled, as well as that they share "the video with everyone you know to unmask these thieves."
In addition, he promised that he would soon upload “other examples of scams that are being carried out,” and recalled that anyone can be a victim of these crimes.
In the video, the young man shows how this type of transactions are carried out through telephone communications, where thieves try to appropriate other people's money with messages similar to those that the Transfermóvil application must send to the phone, as a sign of a secure transaction. .
“It is the typical scam of buying and selling MLC or any currency, which they are doing now through social networks, mainly Facebook,” the young man warned.
Cordero Batista said that the person who contacts is most of the time a woman and he said that they usually have an accent like people from the east of the country, who have fake profiles.
“When I send him the card, he will most likely mark me to make the transaction at the same time,” he said while showing the screen of his cell phone all the steps he was taking.
He explained that Transfermóvil messages enter the phone and the person cannot respond to them and, furthermore, within the body of the text the card only appears the first and last numbers, hiding the center ones.
A year ago, the citizenMaritza Rodriguez wrote toCyberCuba telling your experience with an online transaction to buy freely convertible currency (MLC).
He pointed out that the complaints of fraud due to the online purchase and sale of MLC, before the Cuban police, are not valid and that they clean their hands by blaming the victims of the theft.
Last August, theSanta Clara authorities caught a gang of alleged scammers from that city who were dedicated to the purchase and sale of MLC.
According to the Facebook profile "Fuerza del Pueblo", linked to the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), people used fake Facebook profiles to announce the purchase and sale of MLC and in this way make an agreement with the potential client, taking them to a secluded area. and keep the money.
Recently,three men and a woman were arrested in Santa Clara, for several cases of fraud and violent robbery linked to the purchase of foreign currency.
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