Thursday, April 15 2010 18:07
Armenian citizens have become victims of electronic and SMS fraud
ArmInfo. Recently more and more Armenian citizens have become victims of electronic and SMS fraud. This is part of a global fraudulent scheme, reports the press service of the Central Bank of Armenia.
The "attractive" messages can be divided into four groups: excellent terms (people are offered commercial, investment and other deals with very attractive terms); assistance (people are asked for assistance under some business projects with very promising yields); inheritance or win (people receive messages alleging that they have inherited or won some big money); work at home (people are offered to earn money without even leaving their houses by just sending copies of their passports or sighing notarized documents).
Moreover, in all the enumerated cases the swindlers demand in their first message that the citizens should send some amount to them allegedly for settlement of "organizational problems".
The Financial Monitoring Center of the Central Bank of Armenia calls on the citizens not to respond to such kind of proposals and, in case of essential information about similar fraudulent schemes, dial the following telephone numbers 54-50-88 or 56-16-01, or send a message to [email protected]. The Central Bank of Armenia guarantees information privacy. 
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