Here’s how they can end up tricking you into Bizum and having a lot of your friends fall

Thanks to Bizum, we can make transactions with friends, family or anyone in a magically simple way, but sometimes these types of transactions are so easy to perform that they can also cause us some misfortune if we do not read the confirmation message correctly to complete the transaction.

This is a trick that hackers and scammers have been using for quite some time now, and it consists in taking advantage of the haste of the seller in order to deceive him by sending him a request for money for the same agreed amount.

So much so that the National Police was forced to intervene on social networks such as Twitter to talk about this scam and in which they state that “receiving money is not the same as asking for money”, indicating that if in doubt, it is better to cancel.

In this scam, basically, scammers go to second-hand sites, see the product they are interested in and contact the seller, saying that they are going to pay through it. bizum.

AT #bizum RECEIVING money is not the same as REQUESTING money If in doubt cancel And if you are a victim or witness of a crime report it#IfIt’sNotSafeIt’sNotTrade@LegalitasFunda pic.twitter.com/L217FB9ns8

– National Police (@police) November 19, 2022

The seller accepts, but what he receives is a request for a receipt Money instead of the income itself, and do so with the same amount requested by the seller. If the seller in this case does not read messageyou will most likely confirm the transaction and lose your money.

There is little you can do if you fall for the bait.

Thus, if you fall for this scam, you will have no choice but to go directly to National Police report it and you should also go to your bank to try and file a claim.

But given that Bizum currently does not refund these amounts, in such a case, when the seller inattentively reads the message, you are practically losing money.

For this type of online transaction, you must use common sense and read each message carefully so as not to fall for this type of scam where the seller is being urged to accept a transaction that is in fact request of money.