Scammers began to register fake accounts of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Wagner PMC, and send messages from them asking for financial support to the Russians. About this topic on my Telegram channel Wrote qualified investor, financial blogger, founder of InvestFuture channel Kira Yukhtenko.
The messages claim that Prigozhin was kidnapped by the enemies, but managed to escape to Africa.
“Can you send me 3,000 rubles so that I can return to Russia, expose the traitors and complete the March for Justice? This is really mine. I’m posting a selfie without a doubt. When you click on the text “Financial fraudsters complete their story with the request”, all the details are copied.
Yukhtenko reminded that scammers are ready to do anything to make money, and any request to transfer money to someone over the Internet should be critically considered.
Vadim Uvarov, Director of the Information Security Department of the Bank of Russia, has repeatedly stated that scammers are constantly using new forms and methods of social engineering to deceive bank customers. According to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, 46.5% of malicious attacks in the second quarter of 2023 were carried out using social engineering methods, in which the user was misled to get money from him. The number of such attacks rose 31.51% to 18,443.
at the Central Bank said socialbites.ca tells how bank card holders protect themselves from fraudsters and what four steps should be taken for this.
Formerly socialbites.ca saidHow “black creditors” dragged the Russians into debt.