New modalities of financial fraud They were identified by the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi). Thefts are carried out through unrecognized consumption and operations with Credit cards o debit. The institution that defends consumers issued a alert as part of its activities of continuous attention to citizens.
Citizens receive apparently official phone calls from major banks in the country, such as Interbank (311 9000), BCP (311 9898), BBVA (595 0000) and the Inter-American Finance Bank (631 9000).
In these communications, criminals present themselves as personnel of the “fraud areas” of these financial entities to request personal information y secret keys with the argument that the purpose is to protect users once morest alleged fraudulent situations.
In this way, once they have obtained this information, They carry out different unauthorized operations that end up harming the victims financially.who see their account balances or lines of credit decrease.
It is important to mention that this situation has already been reported to the financial entities so that they can take protection and safety actions for consumers.
The entity reminds citizens that they should not provide the confidential data of their card (secret key, number, expiration date, validation codes, even received via SMS) and recommends reporting this type of situation to the banks involved and through their official channels:
