A cybersecurity expert spoke about a fraudulent scheme with the SIM cards of the deceased

The head of the Antifrot department, Alexander Ivanov, revealed to Izvestia the details of a criminal scheme involving the SIM cards of the deceased. According to him, a former employee of the operator who knew the vulnerabilities of the system was involved in the theft.

"During the inspection, some suspicious facts were revealed, they began to check on the employee who performed this replacement of the SIM card and revealed that there was no one in the salon office at the time of the replacement. During further inspection, we were horrified and revealed that an already deceased subscriber had been replaced," the expert noted.

It turned out that the initiator of the scheme, who had access to the registry office database, received information about the death of a citizen. After that, his accomplices from among the employees of the communication salons illegally replaced the deceased's SIM card, requiring a passport or a notarized power of attorney. After the reissue, the old card was blocked, and the number "came to life" on the new plastic from the scammers.

Having gained control of the phone number linked to the victim's bank accounts, the attackers first made small purchases through the banks' mobile applications, and then transferred large amounts to accounts under their control. The criminal group included both employees of communication salons and bank employees. The operator's security service was able to take control of the suspects' actions. All information was transferred to law enforcement agencies, including the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB of Russia.

According to Ivanov, the best solution to protect the assets of deceased relatives is to promptly notify the telecom operator and banks of a person's death in order to immediately block accounts and SIM cards.

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Earlier, on September 9, it was reported that telephone fraudsters began to act in accordance with a new scheme to deceive Russians — they urge them to buy jewelry with all the funds available to citizens, and then give them to the courier. Thus, the attackers, posing as law enforcement officers in a telephone conversation, under various pretexts, including about "saving" money, convince victims to purchase expensive jewelry.

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