There are more and more frequent cases of fraud through “investment” or “spoofing” type methods, the policemen from Criminal Investigations in Cluj sound the alarm and give advice. Scammers are no longer caught because prosecutors are not in the mood for work

Cases of fraud through “investment” or “spoofing” type methods are becoming more frequent, the police officers from Criminal Investigations sound the alarm, give a series of advice, show the balance today but do not specify whether such perpetrators have been caught.

“Increasingly we encounter situations where people report that they have been cheated by so-called investment “opportunities” or by “spoofing” methods, they say. “Spoofing” is a relatively new method and increasingly used by criminals, which involves the transmission of messages, via e-mail or SMS, apparently sent by banking institutions or trusted persons, or employees of some departments within banking institutions. Phone calls are usually made from numbers similar to bank numbers.

In order not to expose yourself to fraud, it is important to know some essential tips, say Criminal Investigation specialists. Here they are:

You should never reveal your card details through the call or message, the banking units will not ask for your details in this way.
Don’t allow suspicious people to access your phone data through remote control apps. The card is a payment instrument and not a cash collection instrument, so asking for card details by other people is a trap.
We know that on Easter we receive many links with beautiful cards from our relatives or during the discount period, unique purchases offered by different brands, but do not access suspicious links, received by mail or SMS, and do not fill in your data on them .

Last year, the specialists of the Criminalistics Service in Cluj carried out 4,646 trips, 3,532 interventions for on-site research, processed 7,428 fingerprints, made 351 identifications of people, participated in 198 searches, according to a report published today.

It must be said that the vast majority of criminal cases established for such crimes in Cluj, if not all of them, do not end up in court, as actualdecluj.ro recently showed. Most of the time, because the damage is small, the prosecutors propose and the judges accept the waiver of criminal prosecution, because there is no public interest in prosecuting the perpetrators, at least in their view. Details: