Several spectacular cases of fraud have kept Luxembourg on tenterhooks in recent years and months. But most attempts to scam people out of their money are less spectacular - often the victims don't even realise that they have been taken in by criminals. We spoke to Pascal Steichen, Director of the House of Cybersecurity, about spam, scams and spoofing.
How many parcels have the post office been unable to deliver to you? How many times has your "bank" tried to contact you and how many jobs have you been offered where you can "earn hundreds of euros a day from the comfort of your own home using only your computer"? While most of us now reflexively ignore such messages, enough people still fall for them that even simple scams remain hugely lucrative: Around $1.026 trillion is estimated to have been scammed worldwide last year, according to the Global Anti-Scam Alliance .
Most of us regularly receive small messages from this criminal sphere. But what is actually behind the annoying spam calls, text messages and emails, especially when they don't obviously ask for banking information? After all, if an unknown number calls and hangs up immediately, you haven't passed on any information that could be used for fraud. Or have you?
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