ARMENIAN CITIZENS HAVE BECOME VICTIMS OF ELECTRONIC AND SMS FRAUD

ArmInfo
2010-04-15 17:01:00

ArmInfo. Recently more and more Armenian citizens have become victims
of electronic and SMS fraud. This is part of a global fraudulent
scheme, reports the press service of the Central Bank of Armenia.

The "attractive" messages can be divided into four groups: excellent
terms (people are offered commercial, investment and other deals with
very attractive terms); assistance (people are asked for assistance
under some business projects with very promising yields); inheritance
or win (people receive messages alleging that they have inherited or
won some big money); work at home (people are offered to earn money
without even leaving their houses by just sending copies of their
passports or sighing notarized documents).

Moreover, in all the enumerated cases the swindlers demand in their
first message that the citizens should send some amount to them
allegedly for settlement of "organizational problems".

The Financial Monitoring Center of the Central Bank of Armenia
calls on the citizens not to respond to such kind of proposals and,
in case of essential information about similar fraudulent schemes,
dial the following telephone numbers 54-50-88 or 56-16-01, or send
a message to info_fiu@cba.am. The Central Bank of Armenia guarantees
information privacy.