Beware Of Anonymous Callers; They Can Cost You A Lot!

On Wednesday, a citizen, in less than half an hour, lost 83,000 dinars just because he answered an unknown international caller who succeeded in misleading him that he is a representative of a trading company and in the course of the conversation also succeeded in getting all the required personal bank data of his victim including his account number saying it needs to be updated.

A security source told Al-Rai that “the citizen, a victim of the scam, resorted to the security authorities for help and said he became a victim because he trades on international stock markets through a financial brokerage company.

He added, the moment he received a call he knew it was an overseas call and swallowed the bait because the caller said he was an employee of the brokerage company through which he conducts his transactions, and for trading operations to continue, the data must be updated, so he provided him with the numbers of his civil ID, bank account and passport number.

The citizen, according to the source, reported that half an hour after the phone call, he received a bank message that his account had been debited in the amount of 83,000 dinars. When he called the brokerage company he discovered he was a victim of fraud.

The case has been handed to the Cyber Crimes Department of the Ministry of Interior.

 

SOURCE   :   TIMES KUWAIT

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