Several fictitious investment platforms, detected by the police. Citizens are called to be vigilant
Police urge people not to fall prey to advertisements placed on the Internet, which promise to obtain fabulous incomes in a short period. According to the police, behind these ads are criminal groups, which obtain money by deception, under the pretext of submitting investments in cryptocurrencies, currency or shares of large international companies.
The General Inspectorate of the Police informs that the members of the groups collect personal information of the victims, such as name, surname, telephone number and e-mail. Afterwards, they ask the victims to transfer money to foreign accounts through fast payment systems or to install remote control applications (e.g. AnyDesk, TeamViewer) on the owned devices, phone or computer, using them to initiate bank transfers from victims' payment cards.
Following the acquisition of financial sources, personal accounts are created on fictitious web pages, in which the amounts of money deposited are indicated, as well as false information about the income obtained. With the accumulation of an income that exceeds the amounts deposited by 4-10 times, the suspects additionally request the payment of some invented taxes or present themselves as lawyers who can help to debit the income obtained.
To date, several names of fictitious investment platforms have been identified by the officers of the Computer Crime Investigation Department, including: GoldenClub, Aegis, Phoenix, InvestCorp, Simpleway, BTG-Capital Ltd, ZMedia.
In this context, the Police recommends citizens to avoid registering and completing online surveys distributed through social media platforms that promise fabulous earnings; not make money transfers to unknown persons and never provide bank identification code, PIN or any other security code over the phone; not to give unknown people remote access to the devices they own through specialised applications, and if they have fallen into the trap of criminals, to immediately inform the Police and the commercial bank that serves their card.
