Fraudsters again took up the old, proven scheme of deceiving Russians
They create surveys on behalf of well-known companies and ostensibly raffle off cash prizes. So far, there are no effective methods of dealing with such maskers.
Fraudsters, having returned to the old scheme of deception, launched a large-scale attack on Russian retail customers: they create three to five fake sites a day, pretending to be well-known brands, including Red and White, Dixie and Wildberries, Daughters and Sons and Auchan, Citylink, Tele2.
Attackers create surveys and announce the winning of a cash prize, taking advantage of the fact that real retailers hold stimulating promotions in the fall, Kommersant reports. The victim is then prompted to enter the bank card details to receive the prize, and then the code from the SMS message. In this way, criminals can gain access to the user's online banking account.
"People start interacting, but after a while they realize they've been lied to and start complaining." explains expert Vladimir Ulyanov.
According to him, fraudulent sites live only about three weeks. There are no effective anti-phishing tools. You can only shorten their existence by reporting new cases of fraud and monitoring their appearance on the Internet.
Earlier, Life reported that telephone scammers began calling victims from the numbers of other Russians. In such cases, experts advise first of all to contact your telecom operator.
How scammers most often lure money from Russians, told the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Only according to official data, in seven months, swindlers committed more than 300,000 such crimes.
The method of persuasion has become the main weapon of fraudsters in extorting money from Russians. Criminals on the phone pretend to be bank employees, find out the personal and financial data of "clients" in order to transfer their savings. This trend was noted in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
"Of the most common types of IT thefts typical for the Russian Federation, one can single out those committed under the guise of a bank employee by filling out an online application for a loan on behalf of the client (victim) using the received bank card details, passwords from CMC messages, followed by the output of received to the account of the victim of funds to the controlled accounts of the attackers," TASS quotes a comment from the department.
Another way of fraud is the requirement to transfer money to the so-called reserve accounts to "rescue" funds. To do this, telephone criminals present themselves as employees of both banks and law enforcement agencies.
The third method is to send orders to banks to transfer money to accounts controlled by swindlers. The client may not know anything about such a request to a financial institution.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in just seven months of this year, almost 320,000 IT crimes were registered. More than a third of them were committed by phone.
Leif previously said that
scammers divorced a Muscovite for eight million and tried to lure another one and a half million to bribe the second victim of deception.