Sunaina received a message from some company in which it was written that she was a lucky winner and she was going to get a lot of money in return. He told this to his friend. Sunaina felt that she was going to become rich soon but her friend’s words opened her mind. The friend explained that this could be a fraud.
Similarly, another incident occurred when Shubham got an offer to buy a lottery ticket. By clicking on the link his account got emptied.
Actually all these are cyber fraud businesses. Nowadays all the work has started happening online. People have started looking for online and work from home jobs. At the same time, some people want to earn money through things like online schemes, lottery etc. If you are also one of them and want to earn money without any hard work then you can get into trouble anytime.
Scam in the name of lottery and free gifts
Scammers first send messages to users promising lottery, free tour and gift prizes. After this they share a fake link and ask them to fill some details. As soon as users fall prey to these scams and send their details, their account gets wiped out.
Never share your account’s personal information with any unknown person or organization, fraud companies can empty your account by pretending to win a lottery or trip.#StaySafeOnline #cybercrime #cybersecurity #hacking #cyberattack#security #hacker #cybersecurityawareness #technology pic.twitter.com/L4APD5uuXQ
— IPRD Bihar (@IPRD_Bihar) December 6, 2023
Never share your account personal information with any unknown person or organization. Fraud companies can empty your account by pretending to win a lottery or a trip. In these cases, scammers demand users to deposit processing fees on the pretext of sending prize money. After this, debit and credit card details of the users are asked. As soon as they get this information, scammers empty all the accounts of the users.
Do these things to avoid cyber fraud
If timely precautions are not taken, any person can become a victim of such scams. To avoid this, please follow the information given below…
If you get a phone call from an unknown number and are asked for details like debit/credit card account number, password, card number, CVV, PIN, OTT, then stay safe. Do not respond to any such message and try to delete it immediately. Apart from this, you can lodge complaint in cases related to cyber fraud on www.cybercrime.gov.in.
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