Russians were warned about the activation of fraudsters by May 9th

Scammers invent new schemes every year in the run-up to May 9th. The specialists of the Informzashita holding warned the Russians about this on Tuesday, April 22.

Experts noted that the target audience of the attackers on the eve of Victory Day are veterans and their relatives, as well as citizens who want to help veterans before the holidays.

In one of the schemes, fraudsters send messages to citizens in messengers, social networks and e-mail, allegedly on behalf of charitable organizations. They offer the person to transfer a donation to the specified account, which will allegedly be sent to veterans of the Great Patriotic War (WWII). After the transfer, the scammers disappear along with the money. Attackers can also attach a malicious link to an email, which can steal money, data from banking applications or government Services when they click on it and log in to the site.

Pavel Kovalenko, director of the Information Protection Fraud Control Center, clarified in an interview with Lenta.Ru It is clear that such schemes have already begun to be used, and there will be many more in the next two or three weeks.

Attackers also often call veterans and their relatives and inform them that they are supposed to receive payments from federal, regional or municipal authorities, but in order to receive them, they need to transfer a certain amount of money to a special account to activate it.

In order not to become a victim of fraud, experts advised Russians not to transfer money to unknown persons, check organizations before donating funds, and also not to tell anyone the SMS codes. Experts called for helping elderly relatives: install caller ids on their devices, install a self-lock on loans, and explain how to respond to suspicious calls.

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In the year of the Victory anniversary front-line veterans, home front workers and other categories will receive from Br55 thousand to Br80 thousand.

Earlier that day, it became known that in Moscow, a pensioner gave about 10 million rubles to telephone fraudsters. An elderly Muscovite woman contacted the police on April 12, according to 360.ru .

Igor Balynin, associate professor at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, stressed that it is necessary to warn elderly relatives that if someone calls and asks for some information (password from Gosuslug, SMS code, etc.) to make this payment, then this is a fraudster, and you should hang up the phone.

In turn, Anton Nemkin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, federal coordinator of the Digital Russia party project, said in an interview with RT that fraudsters are now actively adapting their schemes to the specifics of the target audience, and the elderly remain one of the most vulnerable groups.

The day before, police detained 14 people in Moscow who were selling conventional biologically active additives (dietary supplements) over the phone and passed them off as medicines, NSN reports.

The perpetrators posted their advertisements on the Internet and in the media, and then called the victims. They diagnosed them over the phone and offered to buy miracle pills. According to investigators, the scammers deceived people and sold them regular dietary supplements.