A new one has been added to the fraud cases in Turkey. People who showed themselves under the roof of two different foundations collected the identity information of the people who applied for aid. The names of the foundations they use are not in the official records.
Today, the acquisition of our personal information by malicious people brings many dangerous consequences. For example, a person who has your identity information can make transactions on your behalf at banks and identity-approved websites. Today, people to obtain credentials Especially when there are many traps on the internet, one of these traps has started to show itself in real life recently.
themselves ‘World Pandemic Foundation‘ and ‘Pandemic Relief Foundation‘, ‘yardimvakif.com’, ‘vakifyardim.com’ and ‘istanbuldernegi.com’, with three (and possibly more) different domain names, but the same website, these people are completely different in order to seize their identity information. used a method. This method emerged with the increase of complaints from users on Complaintvar.com.
They pretended to be foundations to collect personal information
The World Pandemic Foundation, which has received many complaints in recent days, was abusing the demands of people in financial need. needy people, he was applying for help to this fake foundation. After the application, the fake foundation returns to these people via WhatsApp and It was asking for credentials to ‘save’ IBAN addresses.
After obtaining the IBAN addresses of the individuals, the fake foundation was sending small amounts of money, such as 5-10 TL, to these addresses. After that, this money Bounce back to IBAN address was wanted. According to some users, these people also wanted the ‘donation’ note to be deducted when sending the money back. Afterwards, they cut off communication with the applicants.
In addition, these people are not only contacting those who apply to them, but directly via WhatsApp. by reaching the people whose phone numbers they have seized. ‘We will help you.‘ is sending messages. Therefore, do not take messages from these and similar people seriously.
The World Pandemic Foundation or the Pandemic Relief Foundation is not a real foundation
On the other hand, the World Pandemic Foundation or the Pandemic Relief Foundation are by no means a real foundation. When these names are searched on the Foundation Inquiry page of the TR General Directorate of Foundations There are no results for foundations.
When we questioned the websites that these people set up, it was found that all three sites were Headquartered in Istanbul Pendik it seems to be. of your sites The founding dates are different.. ‘istanbuldernegi.com’ appears to have been established on September 26, 2021, ‘vakifyardim.com’ on November 26 and ‘yardimvakif.com’ on December 7th.
In order to stay away from similar events, those who communicate with you under the title of foundation or the ones you will communicate with. Check for official records.
Some of the complaints about fake foundations
- You can take a look at the new feature coming to e-Government to prevent some actions that can be taken on your behalf when your information is captured:
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