In recent weeks, a new coup has been applied through pix and it's taking over social media. The hit is called “Pix vulture” and takes money from people promising to multiply these values.
The coup is carried out via Pix carried out by WhatsApp and usually uses some meme pages to fish for its victims. The most used network to choose victims is Twitter.
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What is the Pix Urubu coup?
The scam is simple: an embezzler profile on some social network makes a post promising big profits for those who send a Pix, even promising a return on the “investment” in just 5 minutes.
In images found on Twitter, some of these profiles published promises such as “R$80 becomes R$1200” and send a WhatsApp contact for the money to be sent. That is, in this type of coup, the criminal profile requests a Pix of R$80 and promises a return of R$1200, however this does not happen.
After the victim sends the requested ''investment'', the scammers block the victims and keep the money sent. To give more veracity to the scheme, some profiles even use videos of simple people attesting to the effectiveness of the method and some false prints of thanks.
Furthermore, in the face of mistrust or resistance, scammers suggest that victims perform “tests” with lower values, suggesting a less commitment to “take proof” and thus win more victims, who feel less threatened by the suggestion of minors amounts.
However, this is an illegal practice and those who send money have their money stolen and never get their investment back.
How to protect yourself?
As has already been shown, one of the most efficient methods to be able to protect yourself from scams applied by Pix is not to click on suspicious links on pages that promise prizes and rewards.
Some experts claim that we should be wary of those offers that have many advantages, those “too good to be true”, such as investments with high returns and too fast.
However, for those who discover the scam too late, after having already performed the Pix, it is of paramount importance. importance that they file a police report and contact their bank immediately.
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