How to deal with cyber fraud?

These days, FATA police constantly emphasizes that with the increasing expansion of the Internet and its penetration rate, the ways of Internet fraud have increased and traditional fraudsters have also entered this phase. FATA police believe that cybercriminals take advantage of the ignorance of their victims about internet issues and throw them into a well that they don’t even realize they are entering.

Payment portals, online gambling sites, internet advertisements, social networks and fake online stores, etc., are among the things that FATA police identify as examples of internet fraud. For example, Colonel Shahin Hassanvand described one of these crimes in a statement as follows:

“In order to buy a car, the victim referred to the advertisements published on one of the online advertisement sites and called the phone number of one of the advertisers. The advertiser told him that if you intend to buy a car, you should deposit 3 million Rials to the bank card number that I am announcing so that I can keep the car for you. The user also trusted him and deposited the amount for him, and after a while of not hearing from him, he realized that he was dealing with a fraudster.”

Although this case has come to an end and when the active bank account of the seller was identified, the amount mentioned in the account was blocked and the accused was summoned to the court, but not all of these cases necessarily suffer the fate of this case and some of them are due to small amounts. Fraud, they don’t follow up on the issue. However, it has been announced that citizens should report any criminal activities in cyberspace or mobile messengers through the address of FATA Police at www.Cyberpolice.ir public communication department.

“Javad Dadger”, an information security researcher, also believes that the prevalence of Internet fraud is higher every day than yesterday, and the biggest level of it is betting sites that are operating in a disorderly manner:

“Due to the illegality and similar cases in betting, this activity can lead to fraud, money laundering and other cases. This issue will become the altar of fraudsters in the coming days and with the start of the World Cup, and it is very important to deal with them and inform about them. It is not a matter of completely eliminating these events and introducing guessing competitions as fraud, but if these sites are licensed and their operation is monitored, their fraud can be largely prevented.”

The judge also mentions the value-added services that provided a suitable infrastructure for defrauding their users due to ignorance and lack of attention of the relevant devices. He believes that the operators have taken measures in this field, but more follow-ups are needed:

“Most of these services are only for registering users and do not have any content. In addition, recently, people have started to register through the proliferation of mobile applications, which have applications with different names. They publish like filter breakers to make users members of vas service. Unwanted membership in these systems can bring several thousands of tomans from hundreds of thousands of users, or even millions of users, into the pockets of fraudsters and profiteers.”

This expert believes that the issue of vases will become troublesome in the future and they should be carefully organized from now on. Finally, he mentions the issue of phishing and introduces it as one of the other common scams these days:

“Creation of fake bank portals, which are recently designed with special elegance, so as to mislead even IT experts, as well as the release of applications that have links to fake in-app payments are examples of the prevalence of phishing in is the country On these pages, the user thinks that he is paying money to a reliable source from the Shoprak platform, while the money he gives has been transferred to another person without the supervision of the central bank, and it is not easy to track it.”

The judge considers other cases such as campaigns with income-generating advertisements through bots and telegrams and various types of this marketing model that invites people to become rich overnight as cyber fraud cases, which due to the economic living conditions of the people, unconsciously It tempts them to use these campaigns. He believes that almost 60% of the solutions to these problems are in the hands of organizations and assigns the rest to the promotion of people’s media and internet literacy:

“Organizations are understaffed and justify that users should be trained while the same training is somehow their responsibility. Issues such as monitoring, organizing and establishing new laws can be the leverage of the government for the widespread occurrence of these events. Also, advertising and proper culturalization of the use of the Internet space are not ineffective in reducing the incidence of these crimes, for example, as I said, if betting sites are managed by a supervisor, they will not suddenly disappear along with hundreds of millions of people’s money.”

According to him, the implementation of minimum security policies and reaching world standards can prevent the promotion of phishing in the country, and awareness of this issue is also considered vital.

Due to the ever-increasing expansion of the cyber space and cyber users, as well as the expansion of internet facilities such as electronic banking, virtual stores, etc., fraud methods have also moved from traditional to more complex methods, so the responsible institutions in In addition to the necessary awareness and training to the people, more than the current warnings, they should also use the latest technology in the world to deal with all kinds of frauds and cyber frauds. More use of the national media as well as the creation of various educational websites along with the use of modern technologies can be an effective step in dealing with internet fraud.