The Interior Ministry warned about a new scheme to deceive sellers under the guise of "checking the terminal"

Fraudsters began to deceive sellers under the guise of "checking the terminal." This was announced on August 26 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 in the Telegram channel.

According to the agency, the attacker called the store and introduced himself as a specialist from the acquiring company, which provides the seller with the opportunity to accept non-cash payments from customers.

Under the pretext of "testing the terminal," he convinced the director to transfer 60,000 rubles from his personal account to the specified card. The attacker promised that the funds would be "returned in 15-20 minutes" and asked to send a payment receipt through a file sharing service.

Cash will be cleared: new rules on cash withdrawal will reduce fraud by 10-30%

Will this limit citizens' access to funds amid problems with the Internet and the growing demand for paper money?

On August 24, it was reported that telephone fraudsters began stealing money and access to "Public Services" from men, allegedly on behalf of military enlistment officers. It is clarified that the man receives a call in the messenger from an unknown person who introduces himself as an employee of the military enlistment office and informs him of the need to bring the missing documents to the military enlistment office, then register on the website of the Ministry of Defense. If the code is transmitted to a fraudster, the attacker gets access to the account on Gosuslugi.

All important news is on the Izvestia channel in the MAX messenger.