Scammers began to call Russians' home numbers more often.
A new trend in cybercrime over the past two weeks has been calls from scammers to victims' home landlines. Igor Bederov, founder of the Internet Search company, NTI SafeNet market expert and director of the T.Hunter Investigation Department, told Izvestia about this.
According to him, in the last week alone, the number of calls, which had previously remained generally constant, increased by 20%. The main victims are elderly people who use the Internet and bank cards less often, but trust calls to their home phone, he claims. Nowadays, people, as a rule, do not leave home numbers anywhere, many believe that only official organizations can know them: the police, social security services and others, this increases the degree of trust in callers, the expert points out.
At the same time, stationary devices are devoid of caller ids and spam filters, unlike smartphones, Igor Bederov explained.
Fraudsters are increasingly using landlines to attack citizens, and the number of such schemes is likely to grow in the near future, confirms the head of the awareness-raising department (Rostelecom Information Security Unit) Marina Koprusova: the trend has been noted throughout the country — the attackers are acting in an organized manner, and cases of telephone fraud from landline numbers are recorded in different regions.
Connected number identifiers for landlines help in the fight against fraud, advises Roman Reznikov, an analyst at the Positive Technologies research group.
"A reasonable and simple protection measure would be to write out all verified numbers that regularly receive calls to a landline phone, for example, contacts of relatives and friends. When you receive a call, you should check the incoming call number with known contacts, and a priori not trust any unfamiliar number," the expert noted.
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