Lately, the Police has been receiving complaints from citizens, regarding internet fraud and account blocking on various social networking platforms as well as communication applications. This type of fraud seems to be on the rise.
Specifically, experts send deceptive messages with the ultimate goal of obtaining confirmation codes and violating accounts on various social networking platforms. Once they have an account under their control, they use it in order to trick people in his contacts in order to receive the confirmation code for them as well.
The public is called to be especially careful in such messages and in no case to send any code to any person. Recipients, if in doubt, to verify the origin of any message they suspect. The public is urged to maximize the security of their electronic accounts.
For relevant information and / or complaints, the public can visit the website of the Cybercrime Sub-Directorate cyberalert.cy.
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