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Scammers posing as bank employees intimidate Russians with the blocking of transfers via the Faster Payments System and extract SMS codes or make them install a malicious application. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reminded that real bank employees do not do this.
Aziz KarimovScammers pose as medical workers, collect pensioners' personal data under the pretext of free medications, and then 'FSB officers' persuade the victims to withdraw all their savings and hand over cash. The scheme is described in materials from Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Otabek YusupovFraudsters convinced an 18-year-old girl to hand over her grandmother's savings under the pretext of 'declaration'. The money was collected by a 17-year-old college student who had been declared missing the day before. Police detained her and a 19-year-old St. Petersburg resident at an ATM: the scammers managed to transfer 25 million rubles, and 5 million was seized.
Aziz KarimovRussia's Ministry of Internal Affairs has reported a new fraud scheme: callers pose as delivery service employees, claim there was a glitch in paying for an order, and extract bank card details or an SMS code under the guise of processing a refund. Mailings of fake pre-trial claims with malicious attachments have also been recorded.
Aziz Karimov
