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Police warns of Classiscam cyber threat in Kingdom
Nov Sivutha | Publication date 21 January 2021 | 09:26 ICT
The ‘Classiscam’ fraud trick has been targeting social media users in Cambodia. Anti-cybercrime Department
The National Police’s Anti-Cyber Crime Department has called on social media users to be wary of messages advertising opportunities to win rewards after observing a recent increase in the proliferation of scams on platforms like Telegram and Facebook.
In a Facebook post on January 20, the department said some users had recently received a message claiming: “I won a reward just for answering some questions! You should do it now before the prize presentation ceremony ends!”
The department determined that all the messages were scams to tricks users and elicit cash or valuable data from them. Some messages require victims to send money first with a promise that doing so will enable them to receive prizes. Instead, they are cheated out of the money and sometimes PIN numbers or other payment information.
Scammers often claim that users have won prizes such as computers and mobile phones via Telegram with automated chat-bot programmes known as “Classiscam”. The ploy was first detected in Russia in 2019 by cyber-intelligence company Group-IB and had subsequently spread widely in the US and EU.
Researchers estimate that there may be upwards of 5,000 nefarious actors seeking to defraud social media users. Anti-cyber crime officials have advised the public not to believe offers with claims of winning prizes.
“Please don’t click on such links or share them. They are a waste of your time and money,” the department said.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... at-kingdom
Police warns of Classiscam cyber threat in Kingdom
Nov Sivutha | Publication date 21 January 2021 | 09:26 ICT
The ‘Classiscam’ fraud trick has been targeting social media users in Cambodia. Anti-cybercrime Department
The National Police’s Anti-Cyber Crime Department has called on social media users to be wary of messages advertising opportunities to win rewards after observing a recent increase in the proliferation of scams on platforms like Telegram and Facebook.
In a Facebook post on January 20, the department said some users had recently received a message claiming: “I won a reward just for answering some questions! You should do it now before the prize presentation ceremony ends!”
The department determined that all the messages were scams to tricks users and elicit cash or valuable data from them. Some messages require victims to send money first with a promise that doing so will enable them to receive prizes. Instead, they are cheated out of the money and sometimes PIN numbers or other payment information.
Scammers often claim that users have won prizes such as computers and mobile phones via Telegram with automated chat-bot programmes known as “Classiscam”. The ploy was first detected in Russia in 2019 by cyber-intelligence company Group-IB and had subsequently spread widely in the US and EU.
Researchers estimate that there may be upwards of 5,000 nefarious actors seeking to defraud social media users. Anti-cyber crime officials have advised the public not to believe offers with claims of winning prizes.
“Please don’t click on such links or share them. They are a waste of your time and money,” the department said.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... at-kingdom
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