Fraudulent messages appear on many occasions near Tet
Recently, many iPhone users in Vietnam have informed the receiving system, reflecting spam messages and spam calls via number 5656 about receiving spam messages on iMessage introducing multi-level work. , there are signs of fraud.
Vietnam Cyber Emergency Response Center (VNCERT/CC) under the Department of Information Security, Ministry of Information and Communications has just said that through monitoring on the system to receive and reflect spam messages, spam calls (overhead). 5656), this agency has recorded many complaints from people about receiving spam messages on iMessage with signs of fraud about introducing multi-level work.
Updated on February 20: Taking advantage of many people's need to find jobs after the Lunar New Year, scammers have used recruitment tactics of "high-paying jobs", to take advantage of gullible people. gullible, in order to seize property.
Specifically, VNCERT/CC said that, after a period of lull, near the Lunar New Year of the Tiger in 2022, the problem of spam messages on iMessage began to return and annoy many iPhone users.
If in the past, the content of these messages often revolved around advertising gambling, playing cards online, withdrawing billions, now many users speak out about receiving too many spam messages introducing jobs. Multilevel.
The content of spam messages on iMessage is mostly the same. The invitations hit the psychology of the time near Tet, many people will have the need to work part-time to have money for shopping.
The subjects sending the messages have offered extremely high salaries of up to 36 million VND/month to entice users to be interested in the multi-level work they introduce. The subjects even confirmed in the message that they would receive at least 800,000 VND per day.
According to the analysis of VNCERT/CC experts, for those who are inherently vigilant, texting only makes them uncomfortable. However, for those who are easy to believe, these lines of spam messages introducing this job make it easy for them to "crash their heads" into a large-scale multi-level line.
In fact, with the promise of simple, work-from-home jobs, high salaries, many people get caught up in multi-level jobs. When people actively contacted the provided Zalo phone numbers, some accounts were locked by Zalo due to suspicion of fraud.
The way to handle spam messages on iMessage is that users can use the "Filter unknown senders" feature. Go to Settings > Messages > enable ON in the Filter Unknown Senders option.
“After enabling this feature, iMessage will not show notifications and move messages from senders who are not in the contacts to a separate folder. This feature basically cannot prevent receiving these messages, but only partly helps to reduce the inconvenience for users", VNCERT/CC Center added.
VNCERT/CC Center also recommends users to be vigilant and be careful with spam messages calling for work, investing and making money during the time around the Lunar New Year, similar to the above messages to avoid "money" loss of gills".
Regarding the assurance of cyberinformation security during the Tet holidays this year, on December 30, 2021, the Ministry of Information and Communications has requested ministries, branches, localities, corporations, state corporations, businesses Internet and telecommunications service providers, and financial and banking institutions, carry out a number of tasks to strengthen this work.
Because, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications, the complicated development of the Covid-19 pandemic has caused the need to work and operate on the network to increase, leading to an increasing risk of cyberattacks with a complex and difficult scale. measure. In particular, during the holidays of the New Year and the Lunar New Year of the Tiger in 2022, the subjects took advantage of their negligence to attack and spread malicious information.
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