OThe shelves between Alexander McQueen’s shoe, Louis Vuitton Bags and Versace HEELS has a 18-inch machete and serrated zombie knife in the police argument room. Along with expensive clothes obtained from serious fraud, DCI Paul Curtis says that the tools needed to achieve this.
“These are serious criminals, and they felt that they needed to protect themselves,” he said. Among other means of “SIM Farms”, purchased on the dark website, cheaters used to send multiple text messages; Piles of laptops; And cell phones and payment card readers.
Tools and spoils of crime are the raids (DCPCU) led by a special card and payment crime section (DCPCU) Observer visited this month. Detecting the payment fraud in the country and charging the sinners, this officer of London and the Metropolitan Police forces are the fight against fraud.
Attracted cheaters claiming some of their latest success Bank officials and Police officers To seduce people and a Chinese man Sent the masses of fake text messages on the west end of London from a car in his car.
The National Criminal Agency (NCA) estimates that 40% of the crime is associated with fraud; Billions puts the amount lost every year. The opening of criminals behind the payment fraud is a top struggle.
There are many problems: criminals are often based on abroad and are taking advantage of constant progress in technology for DUPE victims. However, a difficulty is simple and spread that it is so embarrassed because they have been embarrassed for a cheater they can’t mention them for those around them, think that they do not know about it. “It was reported and this causes great damage,” said Curtis. “And this damage is not only financially.” The victims may lose feelings of self-confidence and develop mental health problems, which can cause suicide.
“It’s really hard to get people’s own embarrassment and shame,” he says. “It is to explain to people and relaxing the network around you, to get comfortable from your family (and) social network from your family (and) social network.
This Guardian Recently, the details of the complex and mercenary tactics used by the scammers, British deceived £ 9 million. Many have called again and again by criminals and persuaded to hand over more money.
Curtis says they use similar methods to sexual predators while taking care of the victims of criminals in cases of fraud. “It works in the same way as the scammers. They must build confidence with the victim. Therefore, this kind of fraud is not a quick process to be a victim of fraud.
Progress in technology Problems ongoing problems for DCPCU. It can now be transferred to the speed of the money before the entry of the law enforcement and advertisements for fake investment vehicles, often supported by MondeySavingExpert’s Martin Lewis.
Developments in the Generative AI – Artificial Intelligence can create text, pictures or videos using examples of existing data – Ben Donaldson, Ben Donaldson, Ben Donaldan, DCPCU’s bank body.
“I think this (criminals) give a number of opportunities not before and … It is easy and easy to use part of this technology,” he says. Emails and messages allegedly from a bank in the past may be stained due to poor grammar or spelling, but this is no longer the technology used by criminals.
“It’s very easy to do (fraud), very easily, very easy to do (a) a kind of all-possible set for criminals that change the essence of the threat.
This month, the UK finance and consumer group? He wrote a joint letter to the UK government Technology companies will replace the increase in fraud, calling the “healthy movement”.
Donaldson says the vast majority of the fraud of the fraud (application) of someone who appears of social media accounts by deceiving someone from the bank account to send money voluntarily. The decision to set up Facebook from FaceChikers and reducing censorship says that the censorship declared in January increases concerns that criminals will be even easier to operate people.
Police have called for a more effective user to share the criminals anonymous, as well as to share more information that can be identified.
Meta, Instagram and WhatsApp’s parent company launched a mutual exchange – which banks, which banks, which can distribute information about SCAMS – it caused 20,000 accounts. Tiktok said that each request for each request for information was examined and evaluated before the information was disclosed.
Thus, when fraudulent balloons and emails, texts, whatsapp messages and any social media channels, what can people do to stay safe?
Treat your personal information in the way you treat your home keys, Donaldson says. “If you do not trust that person with the keys to your front door, you should not hand over any aspect of your personal information.”
