PSP: Remember that the seven most common scams.
Some techniques are well known, others less so, but the fact is that they continue to claim victims throughout the country, which led to PSP to launch an awareness campaign for “seven most frequent scams” in Portugal in recent years.
The Public Security Police, a joint effort between its Criminal Investigation Department and its Police Department Information, informa as 7 (Seven) Frequent scams in Portugal in recent years.
The initiative ran Thursday and has Facebook's main ally, in order to spread the message to the largest number of people. The election of the seven methods practiced by most con artists resulted from a joint analysis conducted by the Criminal Investigation department and PSP Info.
False inheritance or gift; false peditórios; false seers; mockery of updates; false friend / family; fake employees and online scams are the schemes that, nas coming weeks, arise described on the Facebook page of the police force, accompanied by graphics representing each of the situations.
“Our goal, as in warning against putting photographs of children on social networks, It is not cause social alarm. It is an informative and preventive action”, stressed the Deputy Commissioner John Moura, the National Director of PSP, stressing the importance of spreading the alert with those who are the preferred victims of most of these crimes – the elderly, they are deprived of substantial quantities, sometimes, the savings of a lifetime. “Con artists take advantage of the weakness of people, act with refinement, They can do the psychological reading of victims”, He stressed the same charge.
In another aspect, John Moura highlighted the increase that has been seen in complaints online scams, in other words, when the Internet is used as a business vehicle between individuals. For example, “many people still fall into the trap” the rental fictitious holiday homes in summer, said. A PSP avisa que o crime de burla (Article 217 of the Criminal Code) It shall be punished with imprisonment up to three years or a fine. To be prosecuted is necessary to formalize abuse.
