There is a surge in the activity of scammers in Russia before the presidential elections of the Russian Federation.
In order to collect personal data of Russians and access to their bank cards, they pretend to be strict election commission employees or promise to pay money for participating in election-related surveys.
According to RIA Novosti, several schemes of this kind of attackers are already known, from which there are victims.
The simplest one is that, under the guise of election commission employees, they conduct a door-to-door survey and request citizens' personal data. For refusing to provide information about themselves, Russians begin to be threatened with fictitious fines.
On the Internet, gullible citizens are offered to take paid surveys on websites, for example, about what their expectations are from the elections and which candidate they will vote for. They promise to pay several thousand rubles for this information.
The person enters their passport data, as well as data and password from a bank card in order to receive a reward after the survey. But after filling out the questionnaire and the data leaving it to the attackers, a message about a failure appears on the screen, no survey pages are loaded. However, personal data and bank data are received by the attackers.
The second option of such fraud is that passport data and bank details are collected after a person takes a survey, allegedly for his identification and payment. But the person does not receive any money, and his personal data ends up in the hands of fraudsters.
Finally, the third way is sending messages to messengers and emails on behalf of fake public organizations, election commissions or political parties. Such messages offer to follow the link and participate in the survey for a reward of a thousand rubles or more.
The link may contain a virus that gives scammers access to messages or banking applications. But even if it is not infected, it helps to leak your data: after clicking on it, you will be required to provide information about your bank card - personal data.
Also, scammers may call you by phone to collect data. Calls are made on behalf of fake public organizations, election commissions or political parties under the pretext of surveys or questionnaires.
Earlier it became known that the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) will tighten the punishment for crimes using IT technologies.
