The festival of Holi has started across the country, people are sending Holi wishes to acquaintances and friends. Along with this, many people are shopping online to celebrate Holi, to take advantage of this, cyber criminals have made false cashback offers SMS and advertisements viral on social media. If you have also received a similar SMS or social media post, then you should be careful. Because shopping from the link given in these advertisements and SMS can empty your account.
Cyber friend alerted- The Government of India has a Twitter handle by the name of Cyber Dost. Through this Twitter handle, alerts about cyber fraud are issued by the government.
Recently Cyber Dost has made a tweet. In which it has been clarified that cyber criminals can make you a victim of fraud through messages of cashback and discount.
How to commit fraud – Through lucrative offers, cyber criminals first force people to visit their given links.
After this, as soon as you go to the link, cyber criminals get access to the secure information in your mobile and on the basis of this information, with the help of ID password of Internet Banking, UPI and other online transaction methods, your entire account. vacates.
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How to avoid online fraud? If you get an SMS from an unknown number with an attractive offer, then do not visit the link given in it. Along with this, do not share the post of tempting offers on social media with your ID. Along with this, use only trusted websites for online shopping.