Se ha emitido una alerta en todo el país sobre una nueva estafa que involucra el uso de códigos QR pegados en vehículos como si fueran multas. Los estafadores desactivan los sistemas de seguridad del teléfono al escanear el código, obteniendo acceso a la información personal y contraseñas almacenadas en el dispositivo. Las autoridades locales están advirtiendo a los ciudadanos sobre esta táctica y han publicado información sobre cómo identificar las multas oficiales.
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00:00What you're going to see now is a piece of paper with a sticker that they stick on your car
00:06as if you had a sort of vehicle infraction.
00:10Yes.
00:11And of course, you're scared, you say,
00:13they stuck this on me, let's see what it is, how much the fine is, and Javi...
00:16And it's a scam.
00:18In reality, they catch you...
00:20Now, most of them have been deactivated.
00:23You can see that, obviously, as there was an alert throughout the country,
00:28the scammers who do this have deactivated the system.
00:32But what it did was capture, what they indicated to me,
00:36was that it theoretically captured all the data from your cell phone,
00:41WhatsApp and so on, among other things.
00:44And it also made possible, they told us,
00:48the arrival of the keys that you had on your cell phone.
00:53That's why it's important to know, on the one hand,
00:56that municipalities, when they put a fine on you,
00:58even when they put a sticker on you, a scammer,
01:00announcing that there is an infraction,
01:03they're not going to put a QR code on you.
01:04They're going to put a link on you, in any case,
01:06referring you to the official website of that municipality.
01:09And you, through the municipality, can know,
01:11or from the traffic dependency of each place,
01:14you can know the traffic fines you have.
01:16Point number one.
01:17Not only...
01:18The city of Buenos Aires, for example, had to go out to warn about this.
01:24And who did it with?
01:25With a police officer. Look.
01:28They said, don't scan this in the car.
01:30It's a scam.
01:31Share it so no one else gets it.
01:32It's a new way of phishing,
01:34where the scammers leave a sticker on the cars
01:37that are supposedly in infraction.
01:39They ask you to scan the QR code to see the fine.
01:41And so access your personal information,
01:43like your bank account and virtual wallets.
01:46This is how you see a notification of an official fine in the city.
01:49So you know,
01:50don't scan QR codes of unknown origin
01:53and protect your information.
01:56There it is.
01:56Be careful with this.
01:57The city police...
01:58Especially the retirees,
02:00Barbara, who are always, thank God,
02:02unfortunately,
02:04with many scams, with the issue of management.
02:06Well, here you don't have to scan anything at all.
02:08No, no. Go to the official page.
02:10Let's say the official page.
02:11And the city of Buenos Aires, well,
02:13through the city police,
02:14this...
02:16this video.
02:18Formosa did...
02:19The municipality of...
02:20The municipality of Formosa did the same.
02:23Other municipalities too.
02:24The city of La Plata,
02:25the municipality of the city of La Plata,
02:28also, on social media,
02:30published,
02:31on yesterday's day,
02:33a warning regarding, for example,
02:35all the posters or stickers, there you are seeing them,
02:37that they place on vehicles
02:40in front of different situations,
02:41either
02:42for bad parking,
02:43for infraction
02:45to a place where you can't park,
02:47for some other reason.
02:49And there are all the posters.
02:50Those colored ones are the ones
02:53reported by the municipality of La Plata,
02:55which are the official ones,
02:56so that
02:57they don't believe
02:59any other type of poster,
03:01any other type of posters.
03:03And be careful too,
03:05with this QR thing,
03:07in commercial places.
03:09You see, when you go to pay for a box,
03:12something, I don't know, a warehouse, a supermarket or something,
03:15you have the little card that they put on you,
03:17it's a card like this,
03:18and it has the QR.
03:20So the cashier tells you,
03:23scan the QR and pay.
03:25And the employee is on the other side.
03:27Sometimes the gangs, what they do,
03:29like that poster,
03:30it stays in that place,
03:32excuse me, Facu, I'll show you how to do it.
03:35The QR stays here,
03:36the cashier doesn't see it.
03:38Sometimes the gangs go
03:39and put a sticker,
03:40a QR from them,
03:42on top of this one.
03:44So when you're going to pay
03:46for this QR,
03:46thinking it's for business,
03:49in reality, it's for the criminals.
03:51I'm going to say hello to Aníbal Lanzaroni,
03:54who specializes in cybercrime,
03:55because this is a cybercrime.
03:56Aníbal, Facundo Pastor, how are you?
03:59How are you, Facundo? Good morning.
04:01Good. What is this?
04:02Here we are.
04:03Let's see, now with QR.
04:06Well, we are inside
04:07what is a very particular
04:09scam here in Argentina.
04:12I'm going to, at first,
04:14in the opening they were making of the note,
04:17first, I have to congratulate the city police
04:19for having acted quickly.
04:21And I tell you that here,
04:22at this moment,
04:23I am in Tierra del Fuego,
04:24and the same modality is happening,
04:27and the municipality and the province
04:29came out to clarify this type of issue
04:31with respect to what are the municipal fines, right?
04:34Of course.
04:35To give you an idea,
04:36we were talking about Formosa,
04:39and Chaco.
04:42What?
04:42What is the modus operandi?
04:45Well, the modus operandi
04:46is, technically,
04:48when I enable the image of a QR,
04:53it is a spontaneous enablement.
04:54That is, I am manifesting
04:56the intention of focusing that QR.
04:59So that enables a number of security mechanisms
05:03that are disabled on my phone
05:05to allow the entry
05:07of a link with the team.
05:10And that's where this mess begins.
05:12As I voluntarily scan what I do,
05:16on the other side,
05:17I will see the possibility of,
05:19in this case, with the fine,
05:20of saying, well,
05:21you will pay less for the fine,
05:24we will send you a code
05:25for you to validate,
05:27and in that way,
05:27we lower the infraction
05:29or you will have a minimum payment.
05:31When you validate that code,
05:33in reality, what you are doing
05:36is authorizing the other person
05:38who is on the other side of the line
05:40to take full control of your phone.
05:43Yes?
05:44That code is the WhatsApp code.
05:46It is that full control
05:47that you can do everything,
05:48basically, because it is as if
05:50you were handling it.
05:52When you take full control
05:55of the phone,
05:55the person who has it,
05:56and enabled without barriers
05:58that can limit you.
06:00See the keys,
06:01as the journalist who was
06:03a while ago said,
06:04in the clarification,
06:06that you have the possibility of entering,
06:09as it is released,
06:10because the scanning was voluntary,
06:13I can allow the keys to be seen,
06:15I can allow a wallet to be entered,
06:18I allow everything to be done.
06:19So, the vulnerability
06:21is extremely large.
06:23The issue is that, quickly,
06:26the forces have to act on this,
06:27that is, the cybercrime departments
06:30have to act to reduce
06:34these practices to a minimum,
06:35because, specifically,
06:38this happened now because it is massive
06:40with the infractions.
06:41Of course.
06:42But what you just commented on,
06:43from placing a QR code
06:46on top of another in the shops,
06:49this is very common
06:50in the entire Argentine Republic,
06:52and it is not detected in the same way
06:54that these infractions are detected.
06:57So, you are finding
06:59a large number of small crimes
07:02that are being committed,
07:03but that generate a serious damage
07:05to the basic economy
07:06that we have in Argentina,
07:08which is the minority trade.
07:09Well, pay attention to this
07:10that Aníbal explains
07:11and that we are obviously putting on the screen,
07:13among other reasons,
07:14to be able to give people prevention.