Nabiullina advised to hang up on suspicious calls.

If you receive a call from scammers, you must hang up immediately. This was announced on July 2 by the head of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina.

"But I'm after that (the scammers' call. — Ed.) made it a rule not to answer calls from unfamiliar numbers. <...> And I advise you," she said on the sidelines of the Financial Congress of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in an interview with IS Vesti.

In addition, she noted that if the caller introduces himself as an employee of law enforcement agencies or the Central Bank and asks for passwords, then you do not need to continue the conversation with him.

No need for fuel and energy complex: hackers have become more likely to blackmail industrialists

The ransom amounts are estimated in millions of rubles — companies of the fuel and energy complex are of particular interest to criminals.

In the Department for the organization of the fight against the illegal use of information and communication technologies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation together with the portal "We explain.On June 29, the Russian Federation reported that one of the most common mistakes of fraud victims is issuing passwords and clicking on links. The second mistake is installing the application using a link from a messenger or from an unknown website. The third is a rush under pressure.