Web site rest of the world published a complaint about scams practiced by fraudulent loan applications in Mexico last week. Practice, known as doxxing, It consists of disclosing confidential information on the Internet about contractors who may have access to the dissemination of pornographic photographs edited with debtors’ faces.
To illustrate how the scam works, the publication cited the example of a woman identified as Maria: unable to get a loan from regular banks, she turned to the SolPeso app, which required her phone data to be submitted. including your contact list. The practice required early repayment of the loan, as well as transferring less money than the negotiated one.
To refinance her first debt, Maria turned to other apps: Rápikrédito, Super Peso, LoanLaLa, Money Flash and iFectivo. The latter even sent it to his contacts (including his 13-year-old daughter). Photograph of a nude woman with her face Photoshoppedsaying that the client has become a prostitute to pay off his debts.
What do Mexican officials say?
They operate in the country, according to Condusef, the Mexican government’s official platform for financial fraud. At least 94 loan applications listed as potential doxxing practitioners in various cyber police departments. Of the total, 35 are available on Google’s Play Store, the app store for the Android system, which equips 80.87% of mobile devices in the country.
questioned by rest of the worldJesús Chávez Ugalde, director of analysis at Condusef, said that the agency, a kind of Mexican Procon, can only act in the case of registered financial institutions.
According to victims and digital rights activists, loopholes in Mexican law and the failure of regulators have left consumers entirely with Google’s blessings, continue to openly commit such financial fraud. For now, only reactive financial education has become a weapon in the fight against crime.
Source: Tec Mundo
