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.
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