the Tricks They are the order of the day. Cybercriminals increasingly know more tricks to use social networks and new technologies to find a security breach to steal your data and money.
Although it is common that the elderly are the most sought-after target of these scammers – and here is why Digital ignorance That this segment of the population – no one is safe from falling into one of the many traps that appear or are experienced again every day, much to the despair of the state security forces.
There are some that are very simple – which is why they are already very popular and thousands of notices have been issued about them – with attempts to “Trolling”where someone is trying to impersonate someone Post office, treasuryetc. And others are more detailed, like that Unknown WhatsApp numbers calling or texting you Pretending to be a friend or family member in trouble, those who They record your voice and direct you to services you did not contract foror that They usurp your bank’s phone number To take over your account, to give just a few examples.
Message with QR code
But now comes one, which might Many users do not know -Because it’s relatively new- and it’s using something During the epidemic it became common And this still stands: reading a bar or restaurant menu through a file QR code. It is narrated by the user who explains what happened to his in-laws.
“Fraud, it turns out my in-laws passed away yesterday [por el 1 de mayo] To eat at a bar in the next town, they were not given a paper letter, but had them read a QR. QR has activated a premium service for four euros per week. Fortunately we realized that with the first batch…” he explains.
Use QR codes
The fraud process consists of using these codes to seize personal information, in order to impersonate identity, and banking details, with the aim of obtaining the money of the individuals who use them. In this case, cybercriminals place a fraudulent QR code over the original text without it being obvious that it is a sticker.
It is a scam known as “QRshing”, which is nothing more than “phishing” through QR codes, which by scanning takes the user to a fraudulent website that can download “malware” or request confidential information.
There have also been cases at parking meters in some cities: fraudsters placing QR codes to steal users’ money or credit card information.
Commercial theft
The use of reverse QR code is also expanding. In this process, the fraudster creates malicious code that he uses as a supposed means of payment, but in reality it is the opposite: when the user scans it, he is submitting a request for money.
So, instead of making a payment for a product or service, what you get to do is collect that money. For example, when paying for a product at an establishment, if a fraudster presents one of these tampered codes, he does not pay for the item he is taking, but makes the establishment itself pay for it.
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