Recently swindlers in social networks were considerably activated. They think out more and more sophisticated ways how to deceive trustful people, resort even to extortion and blackmail
"Trends" of swindlers
1. Copying of accounts. They do account "double", copying photos and personal data, then are knocked to friends of the person from whom all this was stolen, and ask money as a loan or find out personal information. So before reacting to the similar message in VK, call the one who wrote to you.
2. Sales of goods. Swindlers offer popular goods at very low price, at the same time giving all guarantees. There were cases when as the proof sent the scan of the passport. But money asks to transfer to the card before receiving goods. Then, as usual, disappear.
3. Offer of work. If offer easy money – it is also worth pricking up the ears. In the beginning this offer seems harmless, but then passes into a phase of "rigid" sale where suggest to transfer the small amount on the e-wallet. The unsophisticated person who is not understanding technologies of sales can be led on it. So often entice into financial pyramids and other illegal structures.
4. Offer to training in work at the exchanges, a game in bookmaker offices. The first suggest to train for the small sum, the second suggest to obtain "confidential" information on how the course of a sports event will develop for a payment. This money precisely "will depart to a pipe".
5. Hacker cracking. Very few people understand methods of their work also it and it is not important. It is necessary to know that they hunt for PD – personal data. Further something is extorted or blackmail in various ways.
How to secure the account
1. Oversharing No
First of all it is necessary to remember that the excessive openness in social network is a direct path to the fact that will pay attention to your page. There is such concept – oversharing, and it becomes more and more widespread. That is people spread about themselves unnecessary details, up to passport details.
Therefore look at the pages and check oversharing:
- phone number,
- geotag on a home address,
- passport details,
- photo with the certificate or the cash card.
2. Suspicious links
One more way of protection is not to follow the links from the unknown addresses. If suggest to look at a photo or to find itself on a photo, then after click you can quite get on the zavirusovanny page. The complex antivirus which notifies on such links and counterfeit resources will help not to get on this trick.
3. Be ciphered
Treat seriously passwords and the addresses e-mail. Do not do the same password on the different websites and pages. If hack the account on one website – on others all will open without effort. Do not do too simple passwords. It is better to make difficult: with different registers, digits, an underscore. With such password the account will be very difficult to be hacked. If there is an opportunity – better to tie to phone and to make multistage access. Also specialists recommend to change the password at least once in half a year.