The Police warn of a new technique to get hold of bank keys: they capture the information when you type on your mobile

The National Police alert this Thursday about a variant of “spoofing”, a telephone scam to get hold of bank access codes and that cybercriminals have perfected, since it is enough for the victim to type their password on the mobile so that the fraudster can access to his account.

With this new variant, the cybercriminal himself warns that for security reasons the password should not be spoken to anyone and that the password should be dialed directly on the phone. After the deception, the fraudster captures the keystrokes in the terminal, controlling the secret keys from that moment on.

This fraud, of which the National Police warns this Wednesday, is known as “spoofing” and consists of impersonating the real telephone number of energy companies, banks or public institutions, which makes the scam almost undetectable, since the victim can Verify that the number from which they call you corresponds to the real company.

Although “spoofing” is not a new fraud method as such, specialists in the fight against cybercrime from the National Police have detected an improvement in the technique that makes it even more difficult for victims to detect.

Through the phone conversation, and every time the phone number matches, they gain the trust of their victims by talking about their account security issues.. Next, they are instructed to dial the private banking access code or a verification code on the keyboard of their mobile terminal, through a link sent at that very moment by SMS.

To avoid falling for this scam, the Police remember that our bank, telephone company or utility company already has this information, therefore, they will never ask us for it.

It insists that no private company or public institution uses this method to request personal data from its clients and, in any case, advises that we never provide card information, identity documents, income statement, payroll, usernames, etc. keys and passwords.

Another recommendation from the Police is that we do not click on text messages that our supposed bank sends us and that we never accept telephone offers without sending us the documentation or making a second call to make verifications.