Dear users! Nowadays, you might receive calls or links sent on behalf of various social services, banks, or support teams to your phone or app. These are scammers. The goal of scammers is to trick you in various ways to obtain your personal information, SMS codes, or money. So, how can you spot such criminals and protect yourself from them?<\/p>\n
We have prepared practical tips on how to recognize fraud methods and protect yourself.<\/p>\n
Scammers send you fake links that look very similar to real websites. Their goal is to lure you onto that page and steal your passwords and card details.<\/p>\n
They send SMS messages on behalf of a bank or service saying, \u201cYour account has been blocked\u201d or \u201cClick here to claim your prize.\u201d<\/p>\n
The link address will have one or two letters misspelled (for example, baraka-uz.net instead of baraka.gov.uz).
\nNever click on suspicious links. Type the website address manually into your browser.<\/p>\n
Someone will call you, introducing themselves as a bank or \u201cBaraka\u201d support service employee. They will try to scare you by saying, \u201cMoney is being withdrawn from your card, tell us the SMS code to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n
They will rush you, put you in a stressful state, and ask for your secret code. In such situations, hang up immediately! Remember: Real employees never ask for SMS codes over the phone.<\/p>\n
Scammers on Telegram or other messengers will message you first, introducing themselves as an \u201cOperator.\u201d<\/p>\n
They promise, \u201cWe will solve your problem\u201d or \u201cWe will activate your cashback.\u201d They will ask for your card number or app login password. Only use the chat inside the official app or official bots. Do not trust \u201cassistants\u201d who message you first.<\/p>\n
Offers that look too good to be true are 99% fraudulent. They send links such as \u201cYour allowance is ready,\u201d \u201cMoney has been sent to you,\u201d or \u201cYou won a prize, pay a 50,000 UZS commission to claim it.<\/strong>\u201d As soon as you transfer the money, they disappear. If you have given your information to scammers,<\/strong> block your card immediately and contact our official single contact center at: 1070<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear users! Nowadays, you might receive calls or links sent on behalf of various social services, banks, or support teams to your phone or app. These are scammers. The goal of scammers is to trick you in various ways to obtain your personal information, SMS codes, or money. So, how can you spot such criminals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baraka.gov.uz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baraka.gov.uz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baraka.gov.uz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baraka.gov.uz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baraka.gov.uz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baraka.gov.uz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baraka.gov.uz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baraka.gov.uz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baraka.gov.uz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baraka.gov.uz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThey demand prepayment and rush you by saying \u201churry up, only today.\u201d There is no such thing as a free lunch. Never pay upfront for a \u201cprize.\u201d<\/p>\nRemember 3 Golden Rules for Your Safety!<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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