The Electronic Crime Prosecution has published a useful list of scams that you may encounter when navigating the Internet. We consider the effort of the authorities to be very important and we cite the useful publication.
The most common forms of Internet fraud are the following:
a) Citibank credit card charges via the internet for purchases that were not made by themselves.
- In these cases, someone maliciouss user of Internet creates a fictitious by clicking here και με αυτόν τον τρόπο καταφέρνει να συγκεντρώνει στοιχεία κι αριθμούς πιστωτικών καρτών χρηστών του Internet, οι οποίοι έχοντας εξαπατηθεί, νομίζουν ότι πρόκειται για κάποιο on-line shop and make their purchases.
- In addition, there are many cases where aspirants manage to acquire physics access in the credit card details of citizens which they then use in online purchases, as for these purchases it is not necessary to have the physical possession of the credit card, only its details.
- In addition, in several cases Internet users unwittingly give their information to malicious Internet users (phishing). In particular, the unsuspecting citizen receives an e-mail message from a Credit Institution, in which he maintains an account, with which he is asked to fill in his details (name, account and credit card number, etc.), for reasons e.g. informationof the bank's records. The message, via a hyperlink, leads them to a fictitious bank website, as a result of which the citizen is convinced and provides the disputed information.
b) Shuffle messages with deceptive content that seek to cheat unsuspecting citizens.
- In particular, the mode of action of malicious actors in this form of fraud, described under the term "Spanish Lotto", is the massive sending of e-mails to random Internet users, informing them that they have earned a large sum of money of millions of dollars in electronic draw of the internet.
- The creators of these messages, to be believed, use similar names of large companies (eg Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.) and accompany the messages they send with false certificates regarding the alleged electronic draw.
- The fraud lies in the fact that they ask the presumed winners to pre-pay some taxes and / or expenses for disbursement of money, which is usually in the order of a few thousand dollars.
(c) "419 Scams" or "Nigerian Scams"
- In such cases, messages are sent to random Internet users informing them that a holder of particularly large property has died and either no heir is present and the recipient of the message has been chosen to inherit that property or to become it is necessary to transfer it to an overseas bank account and the recipient of the message is informed that if he / she disposes of his / her account, he / she will acquire a certain percentage of this property.
- In other cases, people from Nigeria are looking for help from entrepreneurs or freelancers to transfer their capital from crime (smuggling, fraud, bribery, etc.), promising a high rate of pay for this co-operation. To this end, they make use of official government titles in their country (Ministries, Central Banks, Nigerian Petroleum Companies, etc.), use government or military titles with actual and false names, or pretend to be "famous" or "important" faces.
- The fraud lies in the fact that message senders ask the recipients to send their personal details, bank account details and credit card, etc., in order to reach their cooperation and to obtain the money.
