Crimea police are urge to be vigilant and warn about the most common schemes of fraud

Fraud using popular sites and social networks. Situations can develop in several areas:

-Fraudsters post on the site announcements on the sale at low prices of any things, equipment, vehicles, real estate, etc., then ask the buyer to make an advance payment, and after transferring funds, the linas-seller’s number ceases to answer.

— The opposite situation is when a citizen who has posted on popular sites an announcement of the sale of his property comes from a call from, supposedly, a potential buyer. The fraudster offers to transfer the prepayment for the goods and for this requests the details of the seller’s bank cards, thereby getting access to funds on his accounts.

Hacking an account on social networks

Fraudsters, using the gullibility of citizens, by using special software, gain access to the pages of users of social networks. After that, the attackers on behalf of the user launch messages of messages to all the contacts of the “hacked page” with a request to provide financial assistance in a difficult life situation or to loan.

The fraudster seems to be a relative and reports «Problems»

The fraudster calls the phone (stationary or mobile), seems to be a relative or acquaintance and excited voice reports that he was detained by law enforcement officials (usually for the commission of an accident, illegal storage of weapons or drugs, and serious bodily harm). Reports that there is the opportunity to «solve the problem.» The money will need to be transferred to a specific person who will come for them, or transferred to the account (subscriber number). Only after a while, the victim learns that everything is in order with his own person. By this moment, money is already in the hands of criminals.

Theft of funds from bank cards:

An unknown person calls the victim’s mobile phone, introducing himself as an employee of the bank, and reports that the user’s bank card is blocked (hacked, money is transferred from it to another account). At the same time, the victim needs to report data on the card (card validity of the card, CVV code, etc.) to cancel the operation. Further, scammers withdraw money from the user card.

Or a message comes to the mobile phone about the hacking of the card. The subscriber is invited to call for a certain number for detailed information. When the card owner calls on the phone indicated on the SMS, he is informed that there was a failure on the server responsible for serving the card. Then the attackers use two options for deception: in the first case, they ask to inform the card number and the pin code for its registration. Having received the details of the plastic card, they transfer funds to their phone number. In the second case, the victim connects the mobile bank to the subscriber number of the attacker, after which the latter transferred all the money to his accounts from the victim’s card.

Source: press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Republic of Crimea