The attackers started calling the Russians with a proposal to take the cashback allegedly accumulated on the bank card. How to present himself in this case, the deputy head of the department of information security of the Moscow State Technical University, named after N.E. Bauman Anatoly Lebedev.
According to the expert, this kind of deception & ndash; a consequence of the fact that the phone numbers and even the passport data of many users went to the Internet. With this information, the crooks offer various services, including & ndash; assistance in obtaining the part allegedly listed on a bank card of funds for the purchase & mdash; cash back. & nbsp;
If a person gives the caller the SMS code of the bank, attackers will be able to pay other amounts by card, warned & nbsp; Lebedev.
“ This code, like other personal data, under no circumstances should you inform outsiders, '' the expert stressed.
If the & # 39; The caller appears to be an employee of a bank or business, it is best to call that organization's official phone number and verify the data, Lebedev said.
Earlier it was reported that in order to get loans for other people, crooks use various tricks including stealing passport scans and SNILS, filling out bogus questionnaires , for example, allegedly for employment, and phishing sites.
Now, to get small credits it is enough to take a photo with a passport in hand, so that cybercriminals can hack email, cloud services and smartphone storage, which some Russians use to store scans of documents and bank cards.