Fraud through SMS, that is a person commits fraud by sending SMS and through it, steals another’s property. Fraud through fake SMS with the name of Sana system and phishing is one of the cases of fraud through SMS. The way to complain about MS name fraud is that the complainant should go to judicial service offices or FATA police to file a complaint.
With the increase in technology and the use of mobile phones, many communication problems between people have decreased. Sending text messages is one of the important advantages of using a mobile phone. For several years, sending SMS has been considered as one of the most useful communication and advertising tools. But this simple sending of text messages has caused new crimes, among these crimes, fraud through text messages can be mentioned. In MS name fraud, the fraudster tries to get the banking and personal information of people by sending SMS.
The content of the text messages sent can include various topics, such as subsidy termination, receiving a discount code, and so on. If people are aware of the cases of fraud through SMS, they will not fall into the trap of these fraudsters and also, the crimes in this area will decrease. Due to the importance of this issue, in this article, we are going to explain the crime of fraud through SMS. Then, let’s check the cases and how to complain about MS name fraud. If you have any questions about this topic, stay with us in this article.
The crime of fraud through SMS
Before we define the crime of SMS fraud, first, it is necessary to examine the crime of fraud. The exact meaning of this crime is stipulated in Article 1 of the law on intensifying punishment for embezzlement, bribery and fraud. According to this legal article, whoever engages in fraudulent maneuvers and steals another’s property through trickery and deception, has committed the crime of fraud. Therefore, the crime of fraud has three important elements:
- deceiving the victim,
- using fraudulent maneuvers by the fraudster,
- and taking another person’s property.
The punishment for the crime of fraud is specified in Article 1 of the Law on the Intensification of Punishment for the Perpetrators of Embezzlement, Bribery and Fraud. According to this legal article, in addition to denying the original property to its owner, the fraudster is sentenced to imprisonment from one to seven years and to pay a fine equal to the money he has taken.
cases of fraud through SMS
In the previous section, we defined the crime of MS name fraud and said that if a fraudster commits fraudulent acts by sending SMS and steals someone else’s property through these acts, the crime of SMS fraud occurs. Now, in this section, we are going to explain the cases of fraud through SMS.
The case of SMS scams accounts for the most statistics of all types of computer and mobile crimes, because it covers a wide range of people, and perhaps contrary to the public’s opinion, who think that low-educated people or people with low virtual literacy are affected by this. They are a type of fraud, it must be said, despite the disbelief of many educated people who are familiar with the media and virtual environment, they have also been caught by such frauds. The important thing to consider in SMS fraud is that all types of these frauds are done in the same way and the main difference is in the content of the messages. In this scam, the text messages either contain links to direct people to fake portals and thereby steal all the bank information of the victims, or the content of the text message creates trust.
It builds trust so that the person is persuaded to go to ATMs or pay money through his mobile phone in order to receive a reward, which is the beginning of an SMS fraud and theft of bank information. In this report, the types of SMS fraud are mentioned in order to better understand the tricks of the criminals.
fuel quota sms
One of the types of SMS scams is the fake SMS of compensatory fuel share that traps people every once in a while. In this way, a text message is sent with the theme “Dear citizen, regarding the solution to the refueling problem, refer to the following site iniopdc.click to receive the compensatory quota”, this text message contains a fake link that contains a malware that As soon as a person enters this link, the malware is activated and steals all the bank information, and even accesses other mobile phone information.
Sana’s electronic notification SMS
The electronic notification SMS is one of the most common fraudulent SMS that has recently trapped many people. They are deceived and trapped. This is while the fraudster has sent a malicious application or malware called System to his victim’s mobile phone and the victim enters the malware by opening this link and all the phone information is available to the fraudster. Based on the victim’s mobile phone number, It becomes the beginning of a chain of crimes and all his audience also fall into this trap.
In general, the SMS sent by these criminals is like this” (Judicial electronic notification) Dear user, a complaint has been registered against you in the Sana system. For more information, first pay the site fee and follow up the complaint through the link below, otherwise within 24 The arrest warrant will be issued at https://sanae.xyz/.ir
Know the types of SMS scams
The message of the basket of goods and the termination of the subsidy and the livelihood plan Another trick of criminals in SMS fraud is to send SMS of goods basket, cut off subsidy and livelihood plan. In this way, the criminals direct the person to the fake bank portal by sending an SMS, and the victim is robbed after entering his card information in this fake portal.
- SMS of winning the lottery
Another trick of SMS fraudsters is to send SMS to win competitions or lotteries on religious days or to win pilgrimages. He sends deceptive emails to his victims and asks them to go to ATMs to receive the prize or provide them with their bank account number and other banking information, unaware that this is the beginning of stealing their account.
Criminals include their landline number in the sent text message so that the person who receives the text message calls this number and after the call the victim asks him to deposit money into his account to send the reward or leads him to ATMs. in order to empty his victim’s bank account.
- Fraud by sending a fake SMS from the post office agent
In this way, the fraudster sends a text message with a link to deposit money to his countrymen with a personal number and the title of a post office officer and under the pretext of sending a judicial notification. which is a small amount to the account announced in the text message and all the bank information of the person is available to the fraudster, while none of the post office officials send text messages with such content.
- Fraud with the method of humanitarian aid
In another way, some fraudsters introduce themselves as residents of European countries and incite the emotions of their victims under the name of humanitarian aid. In one of the cases, a person introduced himself as a resident of one of the European countries and admitted in his text message that he has a disease and plans to donate part of his property to the homeless and poor people living in Iran. was persuading him to transfer money to the account mentioned in the text message for customs affairs. This impostor had managed to deceive several people in this way and pocketed about 950 million Rials.
- Fraud by sending power cut warning SMS
In this way, the fraudster sends a fake text message of power cut to his victims with an anonymous link and asks them to pay their debt by logging into the “My Electricity” application. By entering this fake link, people provide the ground for the activation of a malware and all their accounts are emptied. Therefore, all the bank card information of the losers is stolen in the phishing portal, and due to the access of the fake program to the SMS, the second password is given once. Their consumption was also stolen and withdrawn from their account.
- Fake text messages of the National Housing Movement
In this method, like other methods of text message fraud, the fraudster sends a fake link and asks his victims to deposit money, while any text messages received from personal numbers with topics such as getting a loan from the National Housing Movement are fake and for the purpose of Fraud and theft of citizens’ account information. The messages sent by the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development are with the number V. Maskan, and applicants should refer to the “Saman” system at the address saman.mrud.ir and avoid anonymous links that are sent via SMS with personal numbers. , refrain from installing applications that are sent to them through fake text messages.
- Fraud with the method of registration of equity survivors
This type of fraud still takes victims and some uninformed people from everywhere think that such text messages are true and easily fall into the trap. By sending text messages under the title of registering equity shares or depositing the profits of these shares, criminals direct users to fake pages and make unauthorized withdrawals from their bank accounts. In fact, criminals commit such a criminal act by designing a platform similar to the name and logo of the equity system, even though the identity of the people is known and available in the data bank, and there is no need to send such SMS messages.
On the other hand, people should be aware that any information about equity shares will only be communicated to the public through the official websites of the central depository company.
- Fraud SMS with the title of bank gift
In this way, fake portals are opened in the SMS of criminals, for example, you have won the lottery of a certain bank, so enter the bank portal announced in the SMS to receive your prize. The fake portal is completely similar to the original bank portal. By entering the fake portal, all the people’s bank account information is hacked and the criminal steals bank account information, login passwords to user accounts, identity information, etc.
- Scam SMS from fake charities
Criminals commit fraud in various situations by inciting people’s public feelings and by sending text messages to the victims under the title of collecting help for the needy, they encourage them to deposit money into their personal accounts. By forming a campaign to help the needy, creating channels or charity groups to help homeless children, buying medicine for terminally ill patients, or titles like this, this mother is sick and reaches out to her children, these criminals put their activities under the supervision of the organization. Or official ministries pretend to be justified and try to gain public trust while they lack official permission and send such SMS messages with the intention of fraud.
- Scam text messages for online ad registrants
SMS fraudsters don’t even show mercy to online ad registrants. By sending fake SMS from second-hand goods selling intermediary sites to ad registrants on these sites, they direct them to the banking phishing portal and steal their bank information. In this way, they introduce themselves as site experts and ask their victims to deposit small amounts to the account announced in the SMS to register the ad, or they direct their victims to an infected link that contains malware and from it. They want to enter the bank portal, which of course is a fake bank portal, and the same repeated story happens again, accessing the bank information and finally emptying the victim’s account.
What should we do if we are caught in SMS fraud?
For any reason, we may be caught in a text message scam and in one of the events or at the end of the story, we find out that we have been scammed. In such a situation, should we ignore the problem and say that it just happened and there is nothing we can do about it? And I won’t get my money back or should we follow up the fraud issue seriously? There have been cases where a person was defrauded in this way and did not pay attention to it, but he was unintentionally involved in a cycle of crime and through his phone number, many of the person’s mobile phone contacts were also defrauded. So it is better to prevent such incidents in advance.
Which text messages are fake?
Under no circumstances will SMS messages from the organization and official institutions be sent through personal numbers, and this is the first point that should be paid attention to. On the other hand, we should be suspicious of text messages that have links or internet addresses from suspicious numbers. If we pay attention to these two simple points, we will never fall victim to SMS scams. They have neglected these two simple points and without a little thought, they have taken the text messages seriously, opened the text messages and entered the fake links.
Report a scam
If you think you are scammed, there are some important steps to follow it:
1: Stop communicating with the scammer.
2: Update your accounts & Change passwords of accounts
Notify banks and other companies.
3: Report the scam or fraud
4: Avoid touching documents that the scammer may have touched.