Bangkok, Police reveal 20 examples of fake Facebook pages impersonating police officers. Receive reports of fraudulent attempts to obtain people’s personal information Call to trick people into transferring money.
Royal Thai Police online warning Due to the present Many people have been damaged by online scams, with criminals even creating fake police Facebook pages claiming to receive online reports. to deceive the victim’s personal information or to further deceive and take property of the victim
Royal Thai Police We therefore would like to warn the public about the differences between fake Facebook pages and the following behaviors:
Fake by naming the page as a police agency or technological crime victim assistance center and also publishing advertisements through Facebook to increase the chances of victims seeing the page by using video clips and content from real police pages to put in the advertisements. to create credibility When the victim who wishes to file a legal action against the criminal see
s the Page or the advertisement. The victim contacted the attacker’s fake page to report the crime. The criminal will have the victim provide personal information, submit evidence, and then pretend to return the money that the victim was duped. But the money must be transferred for processing costs/purchasing fees/lawyer fees, etc. to the criminal posing as a police officer. In the end, the victim did not get back the money that was deceived. Plus, you will also lose more money from being deceived by a fake Facebook page again.
The point to note about fake Facebook pages belonging to the police is that the page name is often the name of a non-existent organization or the wrong name. Fake pages do not have an identity verification mark at the end of the page name. These pages were often created recently. Or it could be a page that was later purchased and renamed later. Scammers try to fake the number of followers by typing in the number of people who like/follow. in the details of the page, and the real page
has a blue tick (but the criminal page will put the blue tick ( ) in front of the agency picture) after the page name.
As for the prevention method, the real police page has an identity verification mark at the end of the page name and has complete page transparency information. And the police page does not accept complaints/reports/send evidence in blacklisting. Prosecution through page.
Source: Thai News Agency