CrimeaPRESS reports:
How to resist intruders.
From April 1 to April 7, 85 citizens became victims of remote scammers in Crimea, of which only 23 were elderly. This was reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Crimea. The “schemes” of the attackers are still the same: calls “from the bank”, staging “Your relative is in an accident”, offers of “bargain purchases” and “easy money”, installation of malicious applications and clicking on links.
Did you hear these words on the phone?
– “someone is applying for a loan for you right now”;
– “you need to get ahead of the scammers and hide your funds in a safe account”;
– “an investigator/interrogator/bailiff/FSB operative is calling you”;
— “a criminal case has been opened against you…”.
Hang up. These are scammers!
It would seem that for a long time all the media, social networks, and other sources of information daily talk about fraudulent tricks and warn citizens. But the daily count of victims who have lost their savings amounts to dozens. What is the reason? Experts believe: in psychology.
Representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Crimea, as part of the prevention of remote fraud, held a working meeting with leading specialists from the Department of Social Psychology of KFU. V. I. Vernadsky. Based on the joint analysis, experts identified factors susceptible to fraudulent activities according to the most common schemes.
For example, according to the scheme “Your relative was in an accident,” the following factors are highlighted:
Decrease in cognitive functions of potential victims due to age 60+.
Recommendations: Explain to elderly relatives that if an unknown person calls and reports a problem, you need to hang up and call your loved one back personally to check the information.
Blocking channels for obtaining additional information.
Recommendations: if elderly relatives use smartphones, teach them to write messages to all family members and wait for a response from them in writing; if elderly relatives use push-button phones, set up “quick call” buttons for immediate relatives, which will reduce the time spent searching for a phone in contacts.
Lack of a real subject to activate resistance (the voice on the phone is not identified).
Recommendations: teach elderly relatives a control question, for example, “My granddaughter (daughter, son, grandson, husband) left the house today wearing a green scarf (coat, shoes, etc.), are you sure it’s her, she’s wearing one -an object? Agree in advance on an item that does not exist. If the caller confirms the presence of a non-existent item, then it is a scammer.
A cultural stratum whose active youth and maturity occurred in the 90s, preserved in the dynamic stereotype (attitude) of “solving” with money.
Recommendations: explain to elderly relatives that offering to bribe or “settle” with money is a crime. Police officers will never offer to hand over money, nor will ambulance officers.
Representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea and social psychology experts came to the conclusion:
High-quality counteraction to fraudulent activity is possible taking into account psychological factors that influence the susceptibility of potential victims to fraudulent activities. By closing “weaknesses” in an individual’s information security, through proper information exposure, it will help to significantly reduce the number of victims of cybercriminals.
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