Do not get fooled! Fraudsters began to intimidate Russians more often, saying «sponsoring crime»

Krympress reports:

Fraudsters began to convince Russians more often that they sponsor crime, said Irina Volk, an official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministry of Internal Affairs) in their telegram channel.

According to the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with the help of such a manipulation, the attackers persuaded the woman to drive 200 kilometers by taxi to transfer 89 million to the hands of scammers. The scammers convinced her that this was necessary «to protect the funds.»

According to preliminary investigation data, the unknown called a resident of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Ugra and introduced himself as an employee, after which he asked to name the code from SMS messages.

Further, the “employees” of Rosfinmonitoring and the FSB of Russia connected the victim, saying that its account on public services has been hacked, and funds can be used to sponsor criminals. To protect finances, it is necessary to transfer money to a “safe account”.

It is noted that scammers contacted the victim through the messenger, including by video communication. At the same time, in order to convince the woman that they, indeed, representatives of the law enforcement agencies, attackers showed fake documents with seals, were dressed in uniforms, and also sat against the background of state symbols.

As the State Duma deputy, a member of the Inform Policy Committee, the federal coordinator of the Digital Russia party project Anton Nemkin, against the backdrop of restrictions introduced against criminals, are increasingly moving on to difficult, target attacks.

This is an example of a two -stage deception, in which, as a rule, several persons are involved. At first, such schemes uses the legend “from neutral service” — for example, a call allegedly from mail, a bank or a portal of public services. Then, false employees of “power structures”, creating an atmosphere of pressure and panic, are connected to the conversation. The threat of “crime financing” is another attempt to intimidate and deprive a person’s ability to think critically. In addition to the threat of crime financing, scammers can also appeal to the theft of financial resources— said the deputy.

According to him, in such attacks, elements of social engineering are increasingly used: attackers collect information about the victim from open sources, databases or social networks in advance to make the conversation as convincing as possible.

They know the name, address, even the details of recent actions in online services. This allows you to build a dialogue so that a person does not doubt what is happening for a second. Here we are already not just about telephone deception, but about a full -scale psychological operation— added Nemkin.

Nemkin emphasized that the fight against similar forms of fraud requires not only technical solutions and effective actions of law enforcement agencies, but also wide educational work.

It is important that each person — regardless of age and digital experience — understand the basic principles of cybersecurity. It is necessary to regularly explain how scammers act, in which situations it is worthwhile to be wary, and where to turn for help. Only through a combination of legislative measures, technological protection and increasing digital literacy can you form a stable environment in which criminals will have less and less chances for success— summed up the deputy.

Source: press service of the State Duma deputy Anton Nemkina

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