The "Stopfake" Telegram bot, created by the Department of Information Technology to protect against cyber fraud, has been launched in Moscow. This tool allows you to identify deepfakes and other signs of deception in suspicious messages.
With the development of technology, the techniques of fraudsters are also becoming more sophisticated: they call on behalf of banks or official organizations, send tempting job offers and profitable sales, send requests for help from hacked accounts of friends and acquaintances, and use other tricks.
The free tool will help you check the messages you receive. The Telegram bot analyzes screenshots of correspondence, text and voice messages, and helps determine if there are signs of fraud in them.
The service is based on artificial intelligence and includes language models and optical text and speech recognition technologies.
Currently, the service is functioning in test mode — until February 27. The bot provides preliminary results of message analysis that users need to pay attention to. After the pilot phase, experts will improve the functionality based on user feedback and suggestions. The project should be fully operational in the spring of 2025.
You can use the bot via the direct link or on the "Call Back Yourself" project page.
In 2022, the "Call Back Yourself" project was launched to help Moscow residents protect themselves from Internet and telephone fraud. In 2023, the service received the "Golden Site" and "Runet Prize" awards for its contribution to ensuring information security.
Earlier, www1.ru reported that recently in Russia there has been a mass crash of accounts in Telegram, which is carried out through secret chats. Attackers impersonate the messenger's support service and send the victim a message about the "upcoming account deletion" and offer to follow a fake link to "cancel the deletion." If a person clicks on this link, they instantly lose access to their account and all personal information.
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