According to the online economy report, quoted by Tasnim, Sardar Hossein Ebrahimi, the executive deputy of FATA police, said: Following the receipt of numerous complaints about unauthorized online withdrawals from bank accounts, investigating the issue was specially placed on the agenda of FATA police experts.
He added: Expert investigations showed that by sending fake text messages on social networks and messengers with titles such as “Souvenir Photo”, “Complaint”, “Judicial Notice” and “Receive Livelihood Subsidy”, they encouraged users to open infected links and install malware. After being installed on the victim’s phone, these malwares provided criminals full access to bank information and text messages of their accounts.
Referring to the arrest of the two main accused in this case in one of the northern cities of the country, the executive deputy of FATA police stated: In the inspection of seized equipment and investigations, 350 cases of illegal withdrawal with a value of 32 billion Rials have been found so far.
This senior law enforcement officer mentioned about the other tricks of this gang: in addition to stealing the balance of the victim’s account, by taking control of the person’s user accounts in messengers and social networks, they tried to impersonate and send messages asking for money to his audience, which has also led to fraud on the friends and acquaintances of the victims.
The Executive Vice President of FATA Police warned the compatriots: Any message received containing links or unknown files from personal numbers and messengers with themes such as “judicial notification”, “government circular”, “shares of justice” and “update with the bank” is definitely a trap for contaminating the phone and stealing the balance of the bank account. Citizens are requested to ignore these fake messages and refrain from clicking on any suspicious links.
