The National Police once again uses TikTok to inform us of a new scam. This time, it comes from a foreign number through WhatsApp and demands payment from us, threatening us with consequences. We tell you the details.
Cybercriminals are constantly looking for all the ways that exist to try to get money or the bank details of his victims. And they take advantage of any excuse to do so. Fortunately, in recent years, security forces such as the National Police They have taken advantage of the speaker that social networks offer them in order to raise awareness in society and so that we can be alert to any sign that could lead to a possible scam.
Recently, a group of cyber scammers has been detected who pose as supposed pimps and who, through a WhatsApp message, demand payment of an amount of money from us. If we don’t, they proceed to try, even threatening us physically.
Foreign numbers
He TikTok video of the National Police begins by warning us of the need to take extreme precautions if we receive a message on our mobile phone from a foreign number that we do not have registered in our address book. The video shows how it was received through WhatsApp, but it could also be the case that we receive it through a normal SMS so, in both cases, we have to be especially careful.
@police Alleged pimps tell you that you are molesting their girls and demand payment under threats #scam #police #security #police #fraud
The message begins with a apparent formal tone and, subsequently, it is identified as a “girl agency manager” and then begins to say that we have bothered some of them and that we have accumulated several reports. A situation that has forced him to have to intervene in order to reach an agreement. This is an alleged pimp who is trying to get, through threats, that Let’s make a money transfer. If you do not do so, the consequences could be very serious, they say.
Threats against our family
If we do not make the payment, as the Police themselves warn, we will receive threats with threaten our own safety or that of our family. However, there is no reason to worry. And, as we can see in the video, it is a group of scammers who seek to scare us and take advantage of that fear to obtain money easily.
What should we do if we receive a message of this type? The Police are clear: we should not bite. In fact, what we should do is delete the message without replying to anyone and then block it to avoid continuing to receive these types of annoying messages.
Furthermore, in the event that finally we have been scammed, We must go to our nearest police station to report the facts and try to recover our money. In this case, it is important that we try to gather as much evidence as possible to have a greater number of options that end up identifying the scammers and starting the necessary procedure to try to recover our money.
