First cases of such fraud recorded against their clients last week Sberbank and VTB, reported their representatives.
Sberbank conducts customer outreach and reminds the basic rules of personal cyber security, in particular, not to tell strangers your personal data and information about their accounts, noted in a press-service. Sberbank pays attention to customers that scammers use different schemes based on social engineering techniques, but their goal remains the same – to steal money.
none of the Russian banks has nothing to do with the design of QR codes or any special permits for movement across Moscow and other Russian cities in the period of a pandemic of a novel coronavirus, the stress in the VTB. Similar events are held exclusively by the authorities of the Russian regions. All attempts to impose customers with a service with a third party is a fraud, stress in the Bank.
This type of fraud is one of the subspecies of social engineering. It has noticeably spread in 2019 – telephone scammers are calling customers of banks, represented by staff of credit institutions and trying to draw out the data cards. Previously, the Bank had to know about other types of fraud-related coronavirus. So, the crooks in the guise of social benefits and material assistance for epidemic was trying to get card details of citizens.
