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– Ghanaian police warn the public against the activities of cyber criminals
– It has been revealed that Ghana's cyber security is threatened by social engineering
The Cybercrime Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has warned the public against the activities of cybercriminals.
Dr. Herbert Gustav Yankson, Head of Cybercrime Unit, said the main threat to the cybersecurity space in Ghana lies in social engineering. He stated that the situation was worrying because it was long considered.
Social engineering crimes involve the use of deception in order to obtain confidential identification information.
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Dr. Yankson made it known in a workshop to mark; "Girls in ICT" in Accra.
He said that fraudsters often used a false survey or other social study devices that would allow the person to believe that the investigation was real.
He added that this could happen through phone calls, emails or other computer communications, social media websites and SMS.
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Dr. Yankson also noted that badtorsion ranked third, accounting for 15% of all cases.
"The threat to our cyber security in this country comes from social engineering, and that's what we should be working on," he added.
He revealed that in 2018, Ghana lost $ 105 million to cybercrime, where fraud amounted to $ 21 million, and badtortion cost victims about $ 49,000.
Which means that the total of about 22 million dollars has been taken away from the victims through social engineering.
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