This FBI warning is clear
Republished on February 1 with new reports from fraudulent calls from law enforcement organizations, where even these phone numbers can no longer trust.
Be careful – it becomes more and more dangerous there. We are not yet in the month one of 2025, and the cyber attacks fed by the AI that we have warned would dominate this year are already in full flight. And although there are macro level threats – Chinese pirates compromising our networks and our Chinese AI compromising our phones, you are always the most at risk of your own mistakes when you lower your guard against the influx of daily threats .
It is therefore with the wave of “phantom hacker” attacks “currently targeting Apple and Android products“, What the FBI has warned is to” develop quickly “, and which relies on a usurped call from the bank of a victim who encourages them to transfer money to prevent him from being stolen by A non -existing pirate (Phantom). “And they can even be able to usurp the phone number of this bank,” warns the office, “so the number on your identifier or your mobile phone could show that it is the bank.”
This threat of usurped call develops quickly and may have already reached the PIC-2025, with an informed engineer in piracy almost taken by an attack of Google’s support numbers, which he described as “The most sophisticated phishing attack I have ever seen. “It should serve as a clear warning that you cannot believe what you see and that you need to stick to the basic advice.
And on this note, there is a common theme. Google has confirmed that it will not proactively call users to solve technical problems, according to this last AI attack; And in the recent attack of Pirates Phantom pirates in the highest profile, the bank involved told its account holders to “remember that the Bank of America will never contact you to ask to move money to protect yourself from fraud ”.
Microsoft has just revealed a new update for Windows users who uses its own AI to hit this threat head -on, intercepting such “Scareware” attacks targeting PCs with fraodulent support calls. “The FBI reports that the victims lose more than a billion dollars a year for technological support and related scams,” warned Microsoft in his position, binding the office of the office on how to stay safe.
THE FBI warning Impossible not to be clearer: “Legitimate companies of customers, security or technology will not organize unlined contact with individuals.” There is no exception. None.
With ironic irony, even the police are not immune to the entrance involved in such scams. If you needed a perfect illustration as to the proximity of the brand that these scams have become now, look no further than US CBP Warning that his “employees continue to receive many calls from people concerned with unsolicited calls from crooks posing as American border patrol agents and customs agents and American border protection.”
And we have just seen echoes of the same thing, with Convicts for fraudsters whose scam pretended to be police, encouraging the elderly victims to separate from money and jewelry as part of an investigation. This scam worked by asking the victims to recall by composing the 999 – the British equivalent of 911. But the fraudsters would remain at stake, which would not be disconnected, and would then take care of the urgency.
As with banks and technological support, CBP says that it “will not call you unexpected with promises of money or threats. Does the appellant ask you to pay fees or share your social security, your credit card or your bank account numbers by phone? To hang up. It is a scam. The agency also warns “do not trust the caller identifier; Scholars can make their phone numbers real even if they are not. »»
“Never recall the phone numbers in the caller identifier or left in voice messages, emails or messages on social networks,” advises CBP. “Instead, enter the name of the agency in a search bar and click on its web page to find contact information.”
Technological platforms now respond to this threat. Google has introduced the defense of calls to the latest version of Android, which calls can be listened to using an AI on periphery and report a probable scam, it also prevented users from being discussed to deactivate protection Android during calls to prevent malicious applications from being installed.
Regardless of the email address or the phone number that contacts you. If it is not requested, if it is unexpectedly, if you have not explicitly stretched your hand, suppose it is a scam. Do not take the call – hang up. It’s not your bank, it’s not Microsoft, Google or Apple or someone else. It is a hardened and hardened crook and the more you talk to them, the more it is likely that you and your money will separate.
Take into account the FBI advice to all times. It’s really as simple.
