Russians began to receive more and more scam calls from foreign numbers masquerading as Russian numbers to cheat and steal money. It has been reported TASS Referring to the statement of VTB.
“Customers receive calls from foreign numbers, for example +84 95 ххххххх or +49 хххххх. Such calls from messengers visually resemble a regular call from a Russian landline or mobile number, and on the screen of a smartphone on the iOS platform, or even a regular call from a mobile operator. organisation.
At the same time, most of these calls come from instant messengers, where during registration you can specify any name of the subscriber. This allows fraudsters to deal with, for example, the “Central Bank” or “Committee of Investigation” to put additional pressure on the victim.
VTB advised to hang up at the slightest suspicion of fraud and call back from the bank’s official number. You should also pay attention to the number of digits in the phone number. That is, Russian numbers have 11 digits, and foreign numbers similar to Russian numbers have more than 11.
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