Massive waves of SMS Scam messages promising fake job offers targeted at Russians are circulating, with scammers luring users to click phishing links by promising daily earnings of 50,000 rubles. This insight comes from experts at the Roskachestvo Center for Digital Expertise, as reported to socialbites.ca.
Experts emphasize that legitimate firms do not recruit workers through unsolicited texts. Scammers rely on bulk distributions to pressure applicants into paying money, revealing personal details via a link, or agreeing to work for compensation without proper verification.
The sources explain that contact numbers are collected from data breaches, brute force number lists, and paid databases from shady forums. The numbers are often cross-checked against social media profiles to increase the chance that the message will seem credible to the recipient.
Evgenia Gankina, who heads organizational development at Roskachestvo, notes that counterfeit job offers usually carry obvious errors and blurred contact data. These telltale signs help people distinguish a scam from a real opportunity.
In these messages, vague statements about labor taxes frequently appear, while the promised salary appears unrealistically high compared with typical market rates. Many so‑called employers advertise 30,000 to 50,000 rubles per day for regional roles, a figure that should raise immediate suspicion and prompt closer scrutiny of the offer.
Officials warn that scammers often seek passport information, residential details, and bank data. A genuine employer does not request such sensitive details before an employment contract is finalized. A highly attractive salary paired with vague duties is often a red flag pointing to attempts to extract money or sensitive information.
Security researchers have identified a Nexus Trojan capable of stealing data from banking apps, packaged inside an app that pretends to offer useful tools for Android devices. This discovery underscores the danger of downloading apps or following links from unsolicited messages, and it highlights the need for vigilant security practices when evaluating offers that arrive via text messages or other messaging channels.