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New scam on WhatsApp: criminals pose as police to steal data

New scam on WhatsApp: criminals pose as police to steal data

The attackers, impersonating police officers, claim that the victim's email address is under investigation, so they request personal information and bank passwords.

Cybercriminals do not rest even in times of pandemic. The National Police has detected a new type of scam through the WhatsApp messaging application, through which criminals pose as National Police agents to steal the credentials of their victims.

This was explained this Tuesday by the chief commissioner of the National Police, José García Molina, during the telematic press conference from La Moncloa after yesterday's daily meeting of the Coronavirus Technical Management Committee.

Specifically, as detailed by José García Molina, criminals sent messages randomly through the «app», identifying the user's profile with a National Police shield.
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In the communications, they informed the victim of the scam that their email address is undergoing a police investigation, and requested personal and bank information for verification, thereby preventing legal action against her.


«It is evident that the National Police does not work like this. If you are related to an investigation, you will be summoned to go to the police station or agents will go to your house, but you will never be asked for personal information by phone call, much less by means of a messaging application, "said the chief commissioner of the National Police.

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