Between December 2022 and February 2023, at least 20 scam websites surfaced on RuNet, stealing Russian money and personal data under the guise of selling tickets for ice rinks and other winter activities. This was reported to socialbites.ca by Victoria Varlamova, an expert in the monitoring and response department of Angara Security. According to the expert, the indicator of the winter we are in exceeds the activities of the scammers last season by 53%.
“Moscow is not the only guide to swindlers. We identified phishing sites from ice rinks that are also located in Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and the Krasnodar Territory,” he said.
According to him, scammers rarely create websites that imitate the Internet resources of ice rinks. As a rule, tickets are bought on sites with posters of other attractions and entertainment events.
Such sites are mostly created to steal money, Varlamova says. Links to them are distributed in social networks, instant messengers, as well as via SMS and e-mail. Often, such messages are accompanied by phrases about special conditions and big discounts.
“An unsuspecting user pays for a product or service via a fake web form, and as a result, the bank card details or other information requested at the time of “purchase” becomes the property of the attacker,” the expert said.
Angara Security expert strongly recommends checking domain names to avoid being fooled by phishing. If there is something confusing in the site address, for example, an extra letter or symbol, you need to independently find the official Internet resource of the company offering the product and make a purchase from there. In addition, the content on this web page should not contain obvious grammatical errors.
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