Fraudsters have started deceiving people by taking advantage of the recently introduced self-ban on loans. They call and introduce themselves as employees of "Gosuslugi", claiming that the ban is set incorrectly. Then they offer to follow the link to fix it, but this link leads to a phishing site.
Fraudsters offer to follow a short link that they send in a messenger, allegedly to correct the application. After a person clicks on it, he gets to a site that mimics "Gosuslugi", enters his login data, and it falls into the hands of fraudsters.
Attackers, having gained access to an account on the state portal, can enter the bank application through "Gosuslugi", after which they will be able to access accounts.
The association also drew attention to the fact that when following a phishing link, a virus can be downloaded to the user's phone. This malicious code is capable of reading SMS messages, including codes for logging into "Gosuslugi" or Internet banking.
The "Moshelovka" platform from the "People's Front" also registers signals about attempts to deceive related to self-ban.
Specialist Alexandra Pozharskaya notes that fraudsters impersonate employees of government services, such as "Gosuslugi", BCI or bank support services. They offer assistance in connecting or removing a self-ban, which was allegedly set by mistake.
Over the past two months, telephone scammers have become much more likely to deceive children in order to steal money from their parents' bank accounts. The number of such attacks has increased fivefold. Most often, attackers get acquainted with minors in game chats, but there are also cases when they call through messengers, posing, for example, as employees of a delivery service.
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