It’s no secret that scammers often use phone calls and instant messengers. In order not to fall for their bait and not lose money, you need to know safe words and phrases that give away attackers.
“These are the words: “FSB”, “Ministry of Internal Affairs”, “Central Bank”, “secure account”, “report code from SMS / card / passport details / SNILS.” If you heard them in a telephone conversation with a stranger, immediately stop communicating: the criminal is talking to you,” TASS quotes Stanislav Kuznetsov, deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank.
He also said that schemes in which scammers try to access personal accounts in the State Services are still popular. Also, criminals allegedly call mobile operators, offering to extend the current contract. In their “arsenal” is to pose as employees of the Russian Social Fund under the pretext of recalculating pensions.
The expert emphasized that in all cases the goal of criminals is usually the same: to get loans from microfinance organizations through hacked accounts. According to Kuznetsov, it is necessary to fight scammers by disabling the ability to authorize through the State Services portal on the MFO websites, “after all, you can get a loan in another way.”
We’ve previously written about how to protect your phone from hacking. Read about it here.
Source: People Talk
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