Analyst tells about fraud schemes with digital ruble

The first cases of user fraud related to the topic of the digital ruble have been recorded in Russia. "Izvestia talked to Kaspersky Lab content analyst Tatiana Shcherbakova about new ways of fraud on the Web.

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Among the types of fraud are phishing sites that offer to save your savings and provide consulting services on the digital ruble, spam mailings with an offer to buy it at a favorable rate, the sale of drives allegedly storing digital rubles, as well as phone scams offering to transfer savings to a "safe digital account."

"At the moment, we see separate scam resources where attackers use the topic of digital ruble as bait. For example, on one fake resource, users were offered "easy earnings" thanks to it - 10 thousand rubles "already today." The fake page states that people have already received more than 500 billion rubles through the program, it also describes the benefits of digital currency. To get free access to the program, a person is asked to enter on the page name, surname, e-mail and necessarily - a valid phone number," - said Shcherbakova.

By clicking the "get free access" button, the Internet user authorizes the processing of information about himself. According to the analyst, if a person agrees to the proposal to become a new user of the digital ruble and leaves his data, it is likely that during a callback from the attackers he will be offered to first invest personal funds to then earn many times more.

Most likely, we are talking about a classic scam scheme with fake investments. However, along with the money on such resources, a person risks compromising both personal and payment data, summarized Shcherbakova.

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