the Bank of Russia registered a fraud scheme to steal money from the card using the theme coronavirus infection. Phone scammers promise their victims a grace period on the payment of loans, various kinds of compensation, allowances, refunds for airline tickets, services for the diagnosis of infection with the coronavirus, as well as volunteering, according to the website of the Central Bank.
So they try to work out a credit card or the password from the SMS and also force a person to make a payment to a third party account. To obtain credit card information the fraudsters are sending phishing emails with links to bogus or infected websites.
the Scammers often forge brand and corporate style of well-known organizations, including the Ministry of health, Rospotrebnadzor, the Bank of Russia, the world health organization and other websites.
According to Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Dmitry Skobelkin, the subject of the virus can be used by hackers throughout the pandemic. The Central Bank recommends not to tell strangers not to enter unknown websites your Bank card information and passwords from the SMS.
In February of this year the Prosecutor General’s office prepared a concept of spetsresurs to collect from the citizens information kibermoshennichestvo in the financial environment. The authors of the concept refer to data VTsIOM, according to which every third person in Russia is faced with fraud, and 9% of citizens have suffered real damage. Despite this, in Russia there is still no mechanism for a citizens of reported offences in cyberspace. Also there is no single structure that would be engaged in operational work with the citizens about cyber incidents.
According to the authors, the spetsresurs to capture cases should be developed within the Unified portal of public services forces created when the Prosecutor’s office of Autonomous non-commercial organization (ANO). This organization should also ensure the collection, storage and systematization of information received from citizens. It is expected that this structure will interact with other structures in the field of cybersecurity, create a public blacklist of phishing and fraudulent resources.
According to information security expert Cisco Alexey Lukacova to the future, the site became really useful, you will need to change the legislation on working with citizens to clarify the crimes and violations, and to designate an authority which not only distributes the complaints to other agencies, but also conducted explanatory work among the population.
“Many of the offences in the Internet do not constitute evidence of a crime that can be attributed them to the competence of any law enforcement or CB. Low legal and technical literacy of citizens leads to the fact that information submitted about Internet offences, incomplete, inaccurate, and insufficient for the investigation,” said Lukatsky, Recalling that now comes to court no more than 7% of cases of cybercrime.
meanwhile, in the first nine months of 2019 in Russia officially registered 10.3 million crimes qualified under article 159.3 of the criminal code of Russian Federation (“Swindle with use of electronic means of payment”). This figure is 417,3% more than in the same period of 2018.
in addition, during this time there have been more than 205 thousand crimes committed with the use of information and telecommunication technologies, which is 69% higher than last year. Of these 205 thousand cybercrimes were revealed only 35 thousand.
in Just one year the cyber fraudsters stole from the Russians 1.5 billion using the Internet banking. The average loss of each trick of the Russians amounted to from 100 thousand to 500 thousand rubles. Moreover, such scams happen in the swing rooms.
In November, the Central Bank warned that TSBDima regulator System fast payments (SBP) can be used by scammers. Query using SBP mobile phone number you can find out the name and the first letter of the surname of the subscriber, and the names of the banks where he had accounts. This is acknowledged in the CBA, can help the cyber criminals. Although you can withdraw funds from the accounts it is not impossible, the information obtained from CBP, can give criminals the opportunity to ingratiate himself to the customer of the Bank.
at the same time in Moscow completed the investigation of another case of fraud in the criminal group which abducted money from Bank cards of the residents of the Russians. Criminal charges were brought against six citizens at the age from 30 to 43 years in respect of four of them remanded in custody.
These scammers sent text messages containing false information about the funds in the accounts of citizens, offering the victim to call back supposedly in the Bank, and actually the phone number of criminals. Citizens were back on the specified in the message number and hit the “call center”, where operators learned their personal data and credit card information, and verification codes needed to transfer money to other accounts. The investigation proved that only 12 episodes of such illegal activities, which was stolen more than a million rubles.
