5 years of high-ranking officials of many countries deceived! "Ukrainian prime minister" also makes scam calls? The British defense chief broke the defense on the spot
According to media sources, in recent days, with the tense situation in Russia and Ukraine, the United States and NATO countries that have been constantly "arching fire" have also "muted fire" for a while, saying that they will not directly send troops to aid Ukraine. However, in this conflict, the United States and other countries said that they would still provide necessary military assistance to Ukraine, while also expressing concern about the situation in Ukraine. According to sources, the United States, Britain and other countries have carried out "close" communication and exchanges with the Ukrainian side. But what is surprising is that the British defense minister recently broke through the defense in a conversation with the "Ukrainian prime minister", calling it a fraud and pointing the finger at Russia.
According to the Global Network quoted the British "Sky News" on the 17th, recently, a British defense source said on the news that the British Defense Minister had a video conversation with the "Prime Minister of Ukraine", but it was not until 10 minutes after the communication between the two sides that he found that he was deceived.
According to the report, at that time, the British Ministry of Defence immediately arranged the call for The British Defence Secretary Wallace after receiving the information from another department. It is reported that during the call between the two sides, the "Ukrainian prime minister" not only used false information from the Ukrainian embassy, but also placed a Ukrainian flag on the back to show his identity. During the dialogue, the counterfeiter and Wallace discussed issues related to Britain's foreign policy toward Ukraine.
It is understood that in the chat with Wallace, the man asked if he had received material from himself in the past, while asking a lot of "misleading" questions. When these problems gradually went "out of control", Wallace became suspicious and voluntarily cut off the call. He then took the incident public on social media twitter and pinpointed the suspect, who was the impostor of Ukraine's prime minister, on Russia's head.
"No amount of disinformation, distortion and dirty tricks in Russia can divert attention from Russia's military action against Ukraine," he said. It was a desperate attempt. ”
But wallace did not clarify the details of the incident and did not produce reliable evidence. Therefore, it has been questioned by many netizens. Some British netizens questioned, "I'm curious, I don't know why you're talking about this, I want to know how this impostor contacted our secretary of defence?" Some netizens thought: "Can such a thing happen?" I have to say that our MI6 is really terrible. ”
However, the surging skepticism did not allow Wallace to stand up and explain further. Instead, Britain's Home Secretary Pritty Patel came forward to complain, saying that he felt the same as Wallace because he had recently encountered a similar situation. "It's really pathetic to try to divide us at such a difficult time," he said. It is reported that the Ministry of Defense has issued a warning to Wallace, hoping that in the next work, it will beware of similar "impersonators" so as not to undermine the current "unity" of Europe on the Russian-Ukrainian issue. According to the source, Wallace has asked the Ministry of Defense to conduct a thorough investigation to find out how the impostors hooked up with the British high-level through loopholes.
It is worth mentioning that on this matter, some experts pointed out that although it is not yet confirmed whether this incident is self-directed or it is true. However, in the past five years, from time to time, there have been news that senior officials from various countries have been deceived.
The news pointed out that in 2017, the US secretary of energy had a phone call with the then Ukrainian prime minister "Royceman", and during the 22-minute dialogue, the two sides had in-depth discussions on hot issues such as oil and gas development and Nord Stream II and exchanged views. However, it was later revealed that the phone call was actually made by two Russian experts.
Coincidentally, not long after, another British swindler claimed to be Trump's son-in-law and sent a telegram to Thomas Bossett, a White House homeland security and counterterrorism aide. In addition, including US lawmakers and senior British and French officials, they have also been subjected to similar "scam calls".
Many people wonder, how do these people establish connections with politicians in various countries? Experts believe that they actually took advantage of some of the government's security loopholes to get their hands on it. Experts pointed out that in general, in addition to the special telephone communication of important allies of various countries, the leadership of many countries often does not use confidential communication lines when communicating with other countries. In addition, many staff members are prone to relax their vigilance against people who can directly call dignitaries, coupled with excessive trust in the information displayed on the phone, so once the phone number is leaked, it is easy to have a similar situation. However, what the situation is this time remains to be examined.
Some British experts specifically pointed out that as far as the current situation is concerned, it is generally at most at the ministerial level, and it is almost difficult to reach the sky if you want to call the heads of state. Relevant sources pointed out that in the dialogue between heads of state, the degree of confidentiality and security is absolutely unimaginable, and the probability of direct dialing or transferring is almost zero.