COAHUILA.- The beneficiaries of the program Wellbeing Pension are one of the sectors most vulnerable to cybercriminals, today robbery, bank fraud or extortion, either by phone or through applications affect older people more easily.
Given this, the Secretary of Welfare of Coahuila has asked older adults to be careful if they receive calls from alleged agents They ask for data to give extra support, since in reality the objective is to take away the money received, since they have had some reports of this practice in recent days.
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This type of fraud is known as fishingwhere people pose as agents of entities, whether they are banks or federations, to steal personal information and do fraud like steal money or clone cards support.
The mode of operation One of these criminals is to call their victim and tell them that they have a balance in their favor. Welfare pension for older adults, and to deposit it they must provide their account details. After obtaining the corresponding information from the account holder, the scammers extract the money from the account.
Daily, three older adults are victims of cybercrime such as fraud, harassment, extortion and identity theft, therefore, the Cyber Police Unit of the Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC) issued an alert once morest cybercriminals, who take advantage of the ignorance of this sector of the population in the use of these information technologies.
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Los cyber criminals They surprise older adults to obtain personal, financial information or usernames and passwords, posing as family, friends, bosses, co-workers or company employees merchants or banks, warned the Cyber Police in a statement.
