One billion scam with one text message

According to the online economy report, citing online information, the head of FATA police in Kerman province warned about text messages sent to citizens under the title of “postman’s text message” as one of the latest methods of cybercriminals and said: this fake text message caused a fraud of one billion riyals. He became a citizen.

Colonel Mohammad Reza Rezaei added: Following a citizen’s appeal to the Fata police of this province regarding an unauthorized withdrawal from his bank account, the follow-up of the issue was put on the agenda of Fata police experts.

He announced: The plaintiff announced that a text message was sent to me from a personal and unknown number as a postman and asked me to enter a link to view my judicial notice, which by clicking on it, software will be installed on my phone and at the same time Stealing bank card information and withdrawing 1 billion Rials from the account, the same SMS was sent to my other contacts as well.

Stating that this case was discovered and the case was handed over to the judicial authorities, the head of FATA police in Kerman province announced: Users should not trust such SMS messages and should not click on unknown links.