According to the information published in the newspaperNews”, scammers have developed a new scheme for fraud related to the theft of funds.
It looks like this: the victim is called by a person who identifies himself as an employee of MTS or Beeline and reports that his SIM card has expired. To renew the card, scammers ask you to enter a special code that comes in a message. After that they forward calls and SMS to another number. Attackers can use the obtained data to access the victim’s online bank, email, social networks, instant messengers, and even government services portal.
Representatives of the Central Bank (Central Bank of the Russian Federation) confirmed that the purpose of the scammers is to receive a code from a person to enter his personal account from a mobile operator and create a redirect or persuade the victim to do this on his own. .
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