The Interior Ministry has warned of a new method of fraud via mobile application

To conceal suspicious transfers, fraudsters have started demanding to replenish their bank cards with the help of a special application. This was reported on February 18 by the department for organizing the fight against the illegal use of information and communication technologies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

It is specified that having persuaded to transfer funds to "safe accounts", the swindlers require the victim to withdraw cash from his bank account, then install on the phone application of the payment system for contactless payment and enter into it the data of the bank card, the details of which are sent by the criminals themselves.

Next, the fraudsters urge with the help of the downloaded application through an ATM to replenish the bank card with cash, after which they ask to remove the fraudsters' card from the application.

"Such instruction allows up to a certain limit to hide anomalies to which antifraud systems react, since NFC-payments and ATMs are fairly standard actions for cardholders," the press service informed in the Telegram-channel of the department.

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