Massively sent SMS messages with fake job offers to Russians, scammers lure people to click on phishing links with the promise of a salary of 50,000 rubles a day. This was told socialbites.ca by experts from the Roskachestvo Center for Digital Expertise.
“Representatives of well-known companies will not be recruiting in this way. “Scammers use such distributions to force applicants to pay money, disclose their personal information via a link, or scam them for free work.”
According to him, postal numbers are taken from leaks and “exhaustion” of numbers on the network, as well as from paid databases from shadow forums. Usually this data is checked against the profiles of social media users.
Evgenia Gankina, manager of Roskachestvo’s organizational development department, explained that fake SMS often contain obvious errors and blurred contact information, this is how you can identify a fake job offer.
In the description of such messages, indefinite labor taxes are almost always indicated, but the salary is several times higher than the average market salary. Many “employers” promise 30-50 thousand rubles in the region. per day.
“Scammers are trying to request passport data, place of residence and account information. The real employer does not need such information until the conclusion of the employment contract. An attractive job offer with a high salary but vague job descriptions often leads to a demand for payment or disclosure of confidential data,” he warned.
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