Scammers posed as Australian police to steal crypto, authorities warn

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For you to understand this, read about this scam yourself: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fraudsters-exploit-australia-cybercrime-portal-072826206.html

What I am very surprised about is how the scammers were able to make fake reports on Australia’s ReportCyber platform and makes it look legitimate.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) revealed that scammers are filing false reports through ReportCyber, a platform designed for citizens to report cybercrimes.

Using stolen personal data, the fraudsters contact victims pretending to be officers from the AFP, claiming their information is linked to crypto-related investigations. The goal is to trick victims into transferring digital assets into fake “secure” wallets.

I do not know how this is done by the scammers.

You can read the news in full on https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fraudsters-exploit-australia-cybercrime-portal-072826206.html

People need to be very careful but people also need not to be stupid. Even if you are talking with a police officer or an officer in charge of crime, why would you send bitcoin or crypto to the officer if he told you to do so? That is stupidity, although not officers but scammers that are doing it.

[Die_empty]

The AFP-led Joint Policing Cybercrime Coordination Centre found that the system’s design, which allows third parties to file reports on behalf of others, has been manipulated to reinforce these scams.

The scammers were able to exploit the system since people could report unbehalf of others. They will simply send false reports to Cybercrime Portal using stolen personal data. Using fake case number they contact thier victims. Since the information is coming from ReportCyber platform the fraudsters can easily contact victims pretending to be officers.

This is other level of criminal exercise. It is important to be careful even when it might be coming from respected authorities. Sensistive information like passwords or seedphrase should never be released to enable.

[Findingnemo]

Everything can be faked, so it's not a big surprise for me. But I just can't understand how the fake police officers convinced the victims of crypto scams to send them more crypto?

It is better to check the police officer and if there is any kind of payment involved in such situation always pay to the official accounts, there will be one for every government sector but police department unlikely to ask for money at all at any situation unless the person is tried to bribe the officer to fasten the process.

[mikel_012]

A credential might have leaked or maybe they found a bug in the ReportCyber platform to make fake requests in the system.

But I would never send my coins to anyone even if a report like this was real because it makes no sense to give your moner to another person when you can't even confirm if they are real or no. I would go to the police station myself to confirm and even then I would ask 10 times if this was necessary and could only do it if I was going to get arrested if I deny which I doubt it would happen

But did anyone fall for this?

[Hatchy]

A credential might have leaked or maybe they found a bug in the ReportCyber platform to make fake requests in the system.
But did anyone fall for this?

I was wondering if it were also possible for there to be an insider police whose also involved in the scam. Because it is not that easy to get hands on those kind of systems. But it most likely the scammers faked the reports and have their way. There's nothing that's impossible when it comes to these scammers, they can go extra miles just to get their victims into believing it's real. Most people as well are careless. It just doesn't make sense that you get such reports and fail to even ask any questions but immediately send them money. It shows that they might be one way involved ins one dirty works.

[EluguHcman]

The quick response of the legitimate Australian police was a very good move to alert it citizens and crypto users about this unfamiliar scheme were criminals have access to their Cybercrime officiating platform.

This scam scheme could be bit convinceable to vulnerables because, the criminals are parading and illegally operating in the legal postures with their compliance communications with the target being presented very genuinely.

With this legal disguise of scamming method, only users who are aware that even legal officials don't have the right to demand users private keys and asking them to send them crypto or even referring you to send your funds to an unknown wallets for any good looking reasons will escape this scheme because, the trick looks too genuine for those who tend to trust legal officials when it turns to security matters.

[Mia Chloe]

People need to be very careful but people also need not to be stupid. Even if you are talking with a police officer or an officer in charge of crime, why would you send bitcoin or crypto to the officer if he told you to do so? That is stupidity, although not officers but scammers that are doing it.

People can be very gullible and naïve sometimes and that's part of the reasons you see most of them getting scammed. Generally you'll notice that these scammers have two major methods they use to get a hold of their victims and both are either trying to make them trust them or make them afraid.

I want to classify this particular one as fear since most of them don't want to get into any trouble and as a result of that end up doing what the scammer wants out of fear.

[HajiBagi]

For you to understand this, read about this scam yourself: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fraudsters-exploit-australia-cybercrime-portal-072826206.html

What I am very surprised about is how the scammers were able to make fake reports on Australia’s ReportCyber platform and makes it look legitimate.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) revealed that scammers are filing false reports through ReportCyber, a platform designed for citizens to report cybercrimes.

Using stolen personal data, the fraudsters contact victims pretending to be officers from the AFP, claiming their information is linked to crypto-related investigations. The goal is to trick victims into transferring digital assets into fake “secure” wallets.

I do not know how this is done by the scammers.

You can read the news in full on https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fraudsters-exploit-australia-cybercrime-portal-072826206.html

People need to be very careful but people also need not to be stupid. Even if you are talking with a police officer or an officer in charge of crime, why would you send bitcoin or crypto to the officer if he told you to do so? That is stupidity, although not officers but scammers that are doing it.

If you are surprised by what the scammers did, I am not because I know that scammers can do anything to make sure they succeed when scamming people, there is nothing scammers can not claim to be just to make sure they scammed people, this is not the first time I have seen something like this happen, scammers are very smart and intelligent people, but they choose to use their experience to hurt people who have suffered to invest their money in an investment for the future.

We should always remember not to trust anyone, including the police. The police did not have any reason to know about your bitcoin because it is not their job, their job is to protect the people and save the lives of those who can defend themselves. I will not send or even show a police officer anything about my investment if they ask about it, I would rather follow them to the station and speak with their boss than fall victim to a scam.

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The key takeaway is how the legitimate service allows a breach on its database which compromises users and does not release a warning to those affected users to expect such attacks and steps to take to avoid becoming a victim.

It's also very unwary of the users to send their crypto to scammers. You should not trust the source even if it was originally from the website. Similar scams have happened many times in the banking sector which should be warning enough.

[sunsilk]

That's alarming when someone they have contacted is gullible enough. They're doing it with pressure and threat.

And that's why data that we're having in some platforms are very vital, if it's stolen and hacked. They can use it in these ways like these scammers do.

If no one is there to trust and protect the people, then these scammers are doing it badly and enticingly.

[Amphenomenon]

People need to be very careful but people also need not to be stupid. Even if you are talking with a police officer or an officer in charge of crime, why would you send bitcoin or crypto to the officer if he told you to do so? That is stupidity, although not officers but scammers that are doing it.

People can be very gullible and naïve sometimes and that's part of the reasons you see most of them getting scammed. Generally you'll notice that these scammers have two major methods they use to get a hold of their victims and both are either trying to make them trust them or make them afraid.

It's social engineering and sadly it was made to succeed in such events especially when victims are trying to find a Saviour. Here receiving information from said governmental bodies that are accurate and acting in urgency will affect many thinking since they were even using contact information close to that of the actual bodies.

Another day to remember the how our data online is our lives and what we can lose through it. We need to be careful.

[Wiwo]

This is popular here on my country,  we habe fake law enforcement agents that are busy defrauding unsuspecting victims,  but their most targets are the known scammers or fraudsters,  what they do is to set themselves up inviting fake EFCC to the victims and there by force their victims to make cryptocurrency transfers as a settlement to avoid jail.

But this is all fake.

Recently an EFCC officers was arrested for stealing $11900 that was seized from a fraudsters as exhibit,  so this types of scams are mostly done through the help of an insider.