Facebook account hacking for a scam end. This type of scam is becoming commonplace on social networks. Artists, celebrities, journalists and also politicians have been victims. This time, the hacker attacked a police commissioner. “A complaint has been filed and a search is underway to identify the perpetrator. We are waiting for the results », explained the victim whose account has been falsified for a month. The procedure turns out to be simple. Through a private message, the scammer pretends to be the owner of the account and asks for money everywhere. Everything is virtual although the scammer dares to give an existing number for the transfer of the amount. “The criminal claims to be staying abroad when he needs to quickly send a certain amount to a person. It is at this stage that he gives a number for a transfer only via mobilebanking », we learned from a journalist who was also recently a victim. Fortunately, no one took the bait. They all had the good instinct to call directly to be reassured. This way, we understood that there was an account hack. In the case of this journalist, the multiple reports by her contacts allowed the deactivation of her hacked account. As a reminder, fraudulent access to an information system in order to modify it is punishable by imprisonment with fines, according to the law on the fight against cybercrime in the country. The popularization of this law, which is somewhat unknown to users of the Internet, would be a way of reducing…predators.
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