CrimeaPRESS reports:
The Sevastopol police note: one of the most common fraudulent schemes is borrowing money on behalf of a friend. To do this, the attackers hack into user accounts on social networks and messengers, and then start writing to the person’s contacts on his behalf and asking for a loan under various pretexts.
The reasons that scammers use to extort money can be very different: a request to borrow money to pay for rented housing, an urgent purchase of medicine or medical care, payment for a tow truck or car repairs, settlement of a sudden financial problem, and the like.
It is not difficult to recognize this scheme: the process of deception occurs exclusively in correspondence, since the attackers avoid telephone conversations under any pretext, and, as a rule, the loan amount is calculated in several tens of thousands of rubles.
Often, for maximum credibility, scammers use a photo of a friend as a logo and send a photo of a bank card, which, in addition to the details, contains the name of the friend. Thinking that they are helping their friends or relatives, the victims transfer money to accounts controlled by the criminals.
Sevastopol police reminds, that it is easy not to become a victim of such fraud. Firstly, before transferring money, insist on a mandatory phone call, secondly, ask the person who introduces himself as your friend a question to which only he knows the answer. For example, when and under what circumstances you met, when you last saw each other, what is the nickname of his pet, and so on. It should be noted that often after the first such question, the scammers end the correspondence, as they understand that you have exposed them.
source: press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Sevastopol
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