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| A person has been arrested red-handed as the alleged perpetrator of a continuing crime of fraud, for appropriating close to 20,000 euros | Through the modus operandi known as phishing (1), he fraudulently obtained access to the victims' electronic banking Other arrests are not ruled out The Civil Guard of the Region of Murcia, within the framework of the GELDAUTOMAT operation, has arrested a neighbor of Cieza as the alleged perpetrator of a continuing crime of fraud. Through the modus operandi known as phishing (1), he seized around 20,000 euros. The investigation began when the Civil Guard became aware of a series of complaints in which the victims reported having been the subject of a scam.
The complainants, spread over different municipalities of the national geography, said that after receiving an email impersonating a bank, they provided their access codes to online banking, which meant the reimbursement of various amounts of money through a bank branch located in Cieza. The civil guards collected all the necessary information and focused the inquiries on a young man, a resident of the municipality, who, supposedly and for four months, had made numerous withdrawals, generally worth 300 euros, at the ATM of the bank branch of Cieza referred by the injured. In this way, he came to seize around 20,000 euros from a dozen injured parties. Once the branch where the withdrawals were made was located, the researchers analyzed the images of the security cameras in detail until they found that, among all the users of that bank terminal, one of them was repeated, coinciding with its presence with the dates in Cash was withdrawn from the accounts of the injured. A series of discreet surveillance began on this suspect, which recently culminated when the Civil Guard found him while he was preparing to withdraw cash from the ATM where he had usually been doing it. At that time he was arrested red-handed as the alleged perpetrator of a continuing crime of fraud. The arrested male, 24 years old, Moroccan and resident of Cieza and the proceedings that have been instructed have been made available to the Investigating Court number 4 of Cieza (Murcia). The investigation remains open, so future arrests are not ruled out. The GELDAUTOMAT operation has culminated in the clarification of a dozen crimes of fraud, committed on residents of different municipalities of the national geography, and valued at about 20,000 euros. (1) Electronic banking scam, phishing, Internet fraud Electronic banking is one of the services with the greatest acceptance and use by Internet users.
This is due to the fact that, through its website, the clients of a financial institution can carry out queries, operations and transactions in a completely autonomous, agile and immediate way without the need to physically go to its branch; but it presents an important vulnerability, user authentication. Initially, users are identified with a primary authentication system, that is, a login (username) and a password (password). If it is known to third parties, they can usurp our identity and carry out all the operations that the bank offers.
That was the beginning of bank fraud. How does it work Scammers send emails to many users, simulating their origin from a bank and requiring connection to it in order to update passwords, alleging technical, security or system update reasons.
These messages include links to the supposed banking website. Once these links are accessed, a website identical to that of the bank but fraudulent is opened, where the user consigns their identification data (online identity) that passes to the fraudsters, who later access the original bank page and order transfers of money with the identity of the victim. This deception to get hold of online identity data from electronic banking was dubbed phishing. Currently, phishing is not only practiced to obtain electronic banking passwords, but to obtain all kinds of passwords and personal data, with fraud or not. You should be suspicious of any pop-up window that asks us for bank details, e-mails sent to Hotmail users or via mobile phone SMS messages demanding a response through the same bank details. TO AVOID BEING A VICTIM OF PHISHING, THE CIVIL GUARD RECOMMENDS: Verify the source of information.
Do not automatically reply to any email that requests personal or financial information. Type the address into your internet browser instead of clicking the link provided in the email. Check that the web page we enter is a secure address.
To do this, a good indication would be to check that it should start with https: // and a small closed padlock should appear in the status bar of our browser. Periodically review current accounts to detect irregular transfers or transactions. Bear in mind that banks do not request confidential information through insecure channels, such as email. Perform virus scan of the computer periodically.
Source: Ministerio del Interior
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