Fraudsters luring Russians into fake investment projects began to make real payments to citizens on the card in order to increase confidence and then swindle a large amount. A surge in such cases of fraud occurred at the beginning of 2022, Stanislav Pavlunin, director of security at Post Bank, told Izvestia.
“Scammers now not only show the potential victim the balance on the account in the personal account on the fake website. They actually replenish a person’s bank card by an average of 10-15 thousand rubles, calling them money earned on completed transactions,” Pavlunin said.
According to the interlocutor of Izvestia, due to the replenishment of the account, the potential victim’s confidence increases and the sense of caution decreases.
“On the wave of euphoria from easy money, people are already transferring significant amounts to scammers. And the attackers themselves, spending little money, eventually break the big jackpot,” he stressed.
The largest players in the financial market – Moscow Exchange, VTB, BBR Bank, BCS broker – are aware of the new fraud scheme, their representatives told Izvestia.
So far, it is not widespread, but the future victims of fraudsters themselves can contribute to its scaling, Igor Grachev, head of the information security department at BBR Bank, fears: having received the first money, a person may begin to recommend others to invest in such tools.
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Source: IZ
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