Cyber scams are the order of the day and no matter how much we read about them and are informed, we are always at risk of falling into one of them due to carelessness. In the case of the DGT, all you have to do is click on the wrong link to have a pretty big problem. We tell you how you should act if you find yourself in this situation.
The bands of racketeering They use all kinds of techniques to try to deceive new victims and commit different crimes. One of the scams that has attracted the most attention in recent months are those in which these gangs impersonate different organizations and companies to steal our personal or banking data.
Among all the scams that have been attracting the attention of the authorities in recent months, it is the phishing campaign who pretends to be one of the main ones through the DGT. The scam is articulated via SMS or an email informing us that we have an outstanding fine that we must pay to avoid surcharges. But what happens if we click on said link?
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🚨Alert!🚨 new phishing and smishing campaign detected. If you receive an SMS or email telling you that you have a fine pending to pay, do not enter: it is false
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Be careful with the links you receive on your mobile
The entire scam is designed to cause confusion for the people who receive it. In this case, both the email we received and the SMS seem to be from the DGT. In email, for example, we are going to look at some elements that are particularly designed to try to build trust. As are the logos of the DGT and even the Government.
If we are careless and are awaiting a fine for a road trip we have recently taken, we may be tempted to click on the link. If we do so, as Movistar reports in its X account, we will observe how it directs us to a website where they request our personal data and banking. At all times the aesthetic remains similar to that of the email, resembling as much as possible to what we find in the DGT. But what happens if we enter our data by mistake? How should we act in this case?
Notify your bank immediately
From the first moment you detect that you have been a victim of a scam, the main thing is to block the card you entered on the previous page. In this way, you will prevent any third party have access to the numbering can make a purchase. In most cases, we can block the credit card directly from our bank application. If we cannot, we will have to call our entity by phone to do the same.
Furthermore, we also have to contact her so that send us a new card with a different number and permanently cancel the one we have recently blocked. In this way, we will ensure that they will not be able to do anything with our money. From that moment on, it is recommended that we periodically carry out checks to ensure that our data does not appear on the network and that we do not have any suspicious charges on our account.
If we have not entered our bank or personal information, we must block the sender of the SMS and delete said message. In the event that we have received an email, we also have to mark it as spam and delete it.
