VTB experts warned that recently phone scammers have begun to more often use a new scheme involving double calls to hack Russians’ accounts in government services. writes about this RBC.
Attackers call the person and, pretending to be an employee of one of the government agencies, send a registered letter and offer to send a notification to a mailbox or email. To submit the application, you must enter the verification code that will be sent to your phone.
If at this stage the interlocutor suspects deception and hangs up the phone, after a while they will call him again, allegedly from a government agency. But now the potential victim will be convinced that he has talked to scammers before and his account has been hacked. To protect your data you need an access code from the SMS message.
“At present, a person who is under psychological pressure from unknown persons and completely trusts them becomes a victim of further deception,” experts say.
Such calls now account for about a third of the total number of attacks. This deception scheme is especially popular during tax season.
Russians have less than a month left to pay property taxes. Payment must be made by December 2 at the latest.
Russians before saidThreatens with non-payment of taxes.
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Source: Gazeta
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