— Last year showed how quickly telephone scammers adapt to website optimization in porto alegre the current agenda: they quickly integrated news about a special operation, sanctions, and partial mobilization into their deception legends. According to the Bank of Russia, have new fraud scenarios already appeared in 2023?
— Despite the apparent diversity of fraudulent
legends, which are increasingly difficult for an ordinary citizen to recognize, criminals always use two basic scenarios. They either offer something tempting — discounts, payments, bonuses, or intimidate, for example, with loss of money, criminal prosecution, registration of a loan using your passport data, and so on.
Now, fraudsters are trying to use technical
innovations. We have identified a fraudulent scheme involving the placement of QR codes in public places. The ads offer to receive a free consultation on a guaranteed social payment. When students note the high quality of teaching a person scans the QR code, they are taken to a chatbot in a messenger. Then it turns out that they are supposedly entitled to a payment. Benefits for socially vulnerable people, payments to students, families with children – the fraudsters have prepared a ao lists whole list of such promises to lure and deceive as many people as possible. Then, under the pretext of registering the supposedly due payment, the fraudsters ask the person for personal and financial information. In fact, they need this information to steal money from the card.