The Interior Ministry warned about calls from scammers disguised as employees of the military enlistment office

The scammers began impersonating employees of military enlistment offices in order to extort authorization codes for the Gosuslugi portal from citizens. This was announced on July 2 by the Department for the Organization of the fight against the illegal use of information and communication technologies (UBK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

"Under the pretext of issuing an attached certificate or clarifying the data, the attackers enter into a dialogue, and then demand to tell them the code of the electronic queue. It was according to this scheme that a tenth—grader from the Nizhny Novgorod region and a student from Volgograd were deceived," the department's Telegram channel clarified.

According to this scheme, a tenth-grader from the Nizhny Novgorod region and a student from Volgograd have already been deceived. In both cases, the victims handed over the codes, as a result of which access to their personal accounts was lost. At the same time, the criminals failed to use the data: after a suspicious call disguised as Roskomnadzor, the student informed his parents about the incident, and the student immediately blocked the account and contacted the police.

The UBK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia recalled that state authorities, including military enlistment offices, do not call in messengers.

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Criminals create fake websites and lure users.

On June 30, it was reported that the attackers created a fake account of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and through it they massively send malicious files to military families. The UBK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs clarified that fraudsters can pass off infected files as a list of military personnel, photo albums of prisoners, and a Red Cross application.