[kictanet] Fwd: [i-network] The latest SMS Fraud - CERT alerts

[Barrack Otieno]

Listers,

I saw this from our brothers and neighbours  across in Uganda, i think
our CERT should be issuing this kind of public alerts, they are too
quite.

Regards

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From: Uganda Computer Emergency Response Team UgCERT <info at ug-cert.ug>
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 04:00:48 GMT
Subject: [i-network] The latest SMS Fraud
To: I-Network Uganda <i-network at dgroups.org>



Good morning all

Attached is the public notice released by UCC end of last week about the
latest SMS fraud that is occurring in Uganda.

A news article on this can be found here <http://www.radiopacis.org/?p=6167>
.

In Summary:

Fraudsters are using websites to send people SMSs that appear to come from
people they know. The websites allow someone to create an SMS with any
'sender' number. When someone receives the SMS it will appear to have come
from that number.

The fraudsters typically ask for money in these SMSs and the person sends
money unknowingly to the fraudster.



How to protect yourself: As UCC combats this latest vice the simple thing
you can do to not be a victim is to always verify with the sender every time
you receive a money related SMS. That way you'll know if they actually sent
the SMS or not.



Final Note: We receive very many cases like this where someone gets tricked
into sending a large amount of money to fraudsters because they received a
legitimate looking SMS, Facebook message or Email that appeared to come from
someone they knew.  These all could have been prevented if the victims first
verified with the person whom they thought sent the message before they sent
the money.



We hope this was useful to you.





Regards



Uganda Computer Emergency Response Team - UCC



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