The institution urged to report this type of scam, as well as not to disclose personal information or answer these messages.
A new form of scam has been implemented for a few days via WhatsApp, police warned today.
The institution, via Twitter, detailed the way the scammers operate, also commented that they had already received from different points in the metropolitan area of San Salvador several warnings of the wrongdoing.
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“It is known that they write to random people with a foreign number and pretend to be a known person, asking if they know who he is? And the victims are associated with someone they know who could reside abroad and begins the scam, “police wrote on the social network.
The offender then states “to be back in the country and to ask for his help, either to receive his luggage or to help financially, so he demands a photo of his DUI for” customs procedures “or deposits of money by means of an international remittance.”
Police urged to report this type of scam, in addition to not disclosing personal information or answering these messages.
Faced with the message from the Police, some users recalled the typical scam a few years ago when scammers used Guatemalan phone numbers for their misdeeds.
At that time, the scammers told the victim that he had won a vehicle and cash, then asked for a DUI number and bank account to deliver the prize.
Then the victim deposited money in an account of the interlocutor so that he did the procedure of the vehicle and the cash in Guatemala.