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Extensive: Internet scales came up with a new insidious scheme that steals perso...

Do not lead to these messages: smartphone owners are massively attacked by fraudsters

Extensive: Internet scales came up with a new insidious scheme that steals personal data and devastates accounts. Moreover, the scam is cunningly disguised as services. The US FBI reported that the fraudulent scheme has received the conditional name "Teeth cleaning", writes Phonearena. com. However, dentistry is nothing here: it is about online sets that send people to people that they did not order. The potential victim is sent a QR code with the parcel.

To force the user to scan this QR code, fraudsters are sent a parcel without a return address and without specifying the sender's name. The QR code collects personal and financial information, and also causes loading to be loaded on phones. Therefore, people are advised to in no way scan QR codes that come with incomprehensible parcels or suspicious messages. Experts also gave some more useful recommendations.

If you suspect that you have become fraud, protect your presence on the network: change your account profiles and ask your free credit report to the credit history bureau. This will help to identify possible fraudulent activities. By the way, forcing the victim to scan the QR code, the attackers know exactly how to get the information necessary for the hacking of financial accounts. In the risk zone are: Focus also wrote that fraudsters steal card data through a smartphone.