55 Crimeans became victims of cyber scammers in a week

– calls / calls in instant messengers (Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber) on behalf of telecom operators, bank employees, law enforcement agencies, the online portal “State Services”;

– “safe” account;

– hacking accounts on social networks and instant messengers;

– buying and selling goods on free classifieds services;

– false brokerage;

– investment in company shares.

Via CALLS

Crimean police advise not to follow instructions received as a result of a telephone conversation. If you have doubts about the integrity of the caller, it is better to end the call and call back to the bank or mobile operator’s phone number (depending on who the “interlocutor” introduced himself to be).

The police were contacted 27 citizens who have suffered from the actions of telephone scammers.

An unknown person called a resident of Armyansk and introduced himself as a law enforcement officer. The caller told the woman that third parties had issued a loan in her name and to repay it she needed to send money using the specified details. Succumbing to panic, the woman sent more than 6 million rublesand later found out that there was no loan, scammers called her.

A resident of Feodosia fell for a similar trick, but this time the caller pretended to be an employee of Rosfinmonitoring. The woman believed and transferred using the specified details over 120 thousand rubles.

18 of the specified number of CALLS were made via instant messengers (Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber).

An unknown person contacted a resident of Yalta via WhatsApp messenger and offered him the opportunity to make money on the stock exchange by investing money. Despite the fact that police officers had previously warned the Yalta resident about such fraud, he still trusted and transferred over 400 thousand rubles. After a while, when the man did not receive income from the investment, he tried to contact the unknown person, but all attempts were in vain.

How to recognize a scammer?

– distracts with volume of information – the caller talks a lot, often in complex and incomprehensible constructions, asks questions;

– hurries to act – doesn’t give you time to think, pushes you, asks you to name the code as soon as possible;

– frightens with consequences – the caller says that everything is bad: the money is leaving the card, the accounts are frozen. He offers a quick solution that will help fix everything.

For any suspicious calls — hang up the phone!!!

Through INTERNET SITES, SOCIAL NETWORKS, MESSENGERS

Fallen for scammers’ tricks 22 citizen.

A Kerchan woman received a message on the Telegram messenger from a stranger who offered her a part-time job. All she had to do was book hotel rooms through a certain Internet site, thereby allegedly increasing their ratings. Of course, the woman did it with her own money, but she was promised that the money would be returned with a good interest rate. Carrying out this simple task, the Kerchan woman spent more than 80 thousand rubles, but I didn’t receive a return on my investment, much less the promised bonuses.

Through INSTALLING THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS AND FOLLOWING LINKS

6 citizens fell for the tricks of scammers by clicking on links from an unknown source and installing malicious applications.

A resident of the Saki district contacted the police with a report of fraud. The woman said that she was selling beaded jewelry through an online free classified ad service. One day an unknown person wrote to her and wanted to buy jewelry from the applicant. Under the pretext of transferring funds, the “buyer” sent the Crimean woman a link, arguing that in this way he would be able to send funds. Suspecting nothing, the woman followed the link and entered her bank card details, after which he received an SMS notification about the debit about 57 thousand rubles.

A similar incident occurred with a resident of Feodosia, who posted an advertisement on an online service for the sale of a game console. The young man opened the link received from the “buyer”, and after entering his bank card details, he received a notification that more than 24 thousand rubles from his account.

Police recommend! DO NOT click on unidentified links! Do not install unknown applications on your mobile phone.

source: press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea