New tricks of swindlers, associated with pandemic coronavirus, fix Russian banks. Schemers use social engineering to get people to pay non-existent fine for violation of isolation or, under various pretexts, to defraud the personal data of the customer of the Bank.
“In the current situation of the pandemic COVID-19 we capture the emergence of new ways of committing fraud attacks, including the use of phishing pages, allegedly showing clients areas, movements, or SMS messaging with the requirements about payment of fines for violation of the isolation mode and the like”, – quotes RIA Novosti Director of information security Department at ROSBANK Mikhail Ivanov.
In a press-service of Sberbank reported that the fraudsters in the call, in order to lure a customer’s personal information, can use a variety of prepositions, including the actual agenda, for instance making fake passes to get around the city, invitation to undergo a medical examination or be tested for COVID-19. Among the scenarios of fraud calls to customers, allegedly on behalf of the Bank, with a message about the urgent need to stop a payment or an open credit, which can be quickly cancelled.
As already wrote “RG”, on the eve of VTB reported that the number of attempted fraud against Bank customers on the background of the introduction of the isolation in the first half of April increased in comparison with the same period in March, more than 15%. A week earlier, Sberbank and VTB has documented cases of fraudulent activities in the framework of execution of QR codes that is required to move to Moscow and the Moscow region.
banks assured that use various methods of client authentication, “so any attempt by fraudsters to obtain credit in someone else’s name suppressed”. While Sberbank pointed out that the intention to use other people’s personal information to process online credit are rare.
