Experts: scammers are complicating the scheme to deceive Russians

At the same time, now the scammers’ scheme has become more sophisticated and is carried out in several stages, the specialist explained. According to him, scammers no longer make direct calls on behalf of the police; the deception begins with something harmless from a series of calls from an intercom company or a courier.

After this, there is a second wave of attack, when a person receives a call on behalf of Rosportebnadzor or Rosfinmonitoring and is told: “Did scammers call you? Calm down, we will help you now. Your accounts are safe!” And then they call a third time from the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the Central Bank, when they say that after all, the money is not safe, it needs to be protected, transferred to a safe account, following such and such instructions. Most often, stories are added to this scheme about how some kind of power of attorney has been issued to a bank client and terrorism can be financed with this money,” Igor Seregin told the details.

The specialist also named the main differences between scam calls and real messages from organizations.

A call from a banking organization comes at the moment when you were doing something in the application, did something, then received some kind of notification — after that a call from the bank is normal, rational… If you did nothing, watched a movie and suddenly they call you on behalf of Rosfinmonitoring, the bank, the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, of course, these are most likely scammers,” he noted.

The day before, Russians were warned that fictitious online stores and “one-pagers” that imitate the resources of famous brands created by scammers on the eve of the so-called “Black Fridays” and “Cyber ​​Mondays”.

In addition, scammers are actively promoting malicious applications and bots in instant messengers, with the help of which you can supposedly monitor discounts and receive exclusive promotional codes.

source: RIA Novosti Crimea