On the YouTube Shorts service, scammers post short videos in Russian to deceive Russian schoolchildren and steal money from them under the pretext of investing in the Internet to make easy money. Kaspersky Lab experts talked about it, the schematic of cybercriminals is published at: blog companies.
Roles are only the first phase of a multi-level fraud scheme whose purpose is to take other people’s money. All videos in the user account are of the same type and have the hashtag #Minecraft and stills from this game.
“This is done so that the channel appears more often in the recommendations of the target audience of potential victims. The short video includes a link to the full video on another YouTube channel.
Kaspersky Lab announced that schoolchildren are offered to earn money on the Internet without investments through the Telegram bot of the popular cryptocurrency exchange, the link of which is attached below the full video.
The Telegram bot offers to replenish the balance first, that is, to transfer funds to an electronic wallet number. Victims are promised that the amount deposited will double within a week, but the money actually goes to the attackers.
“At the time we discovered the video had already had 156,000 views. Kaspersky Lab content analyst Olga Svistunova has more than 150 comments under the video, most of which are expected to be positive – attackers leave particularly positive comments,” said Olga Svistunova.
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