The Central Bank spoke of a fraudulent scheme under the guise of aiding the purchase of foreign shares. About her reported Referring to the director of the department of combating unfair practices of the RBC Bank of Russia Valery Lyakh.
The essence of the plan is as follows. Attackers approach investors on behalf of a brokerage firm and offer to buy cryptocurrency and transfer it to the broker’s account to trade foreign shares. As a result, the crypt goes to someone else’s wallet, comes after the broadcast.
“This type of offer is not a new trick, but a redesign of the old scheme of depositing money into someone else’s credit card number. “To transfer the crypt to someone else’s wallet with the promise of great wealth is an old melody with new lyrics,” said Lyakh, whose words were quoted by the Central Bank’s press service.
In essence, these schemes are scams that use social engineering or deceptive methods to obtain information from a bank customer or broker in order to withdraw money from a card or transfer money, securities or cryptocurrencies to a scammer. More than a third of theft from customers’ debit cards is explained by social engineering, according to the regulator.