Evgenia Lazareva, director of the Borrowers’ Rights Foundation, head of the Moshelovka platform, said that scammers in Russia are actively using another fraud scheme – the victim is called “from the bank” and is asked to dictate personal data – allegedly an application for changing the phone number linked to the account. This has been reported DEA News”.
The agency’s journalist said he received a phone call from a bank employee who allegedly asked him to approve his application to change the phone number to which his bank account was linked. The agency employee interrupted the conversation and called the credit institution himself, and was told that he had encountered scammers.
According to Lazareva, this is one of the most common schemes among phone scammers. She noted that such legends are quite stubborn and have continued to work and bring income to the attackers for more than a year. Lazareva noted that compared to March-April 2022, more complaints about such scams began to be received.
Lazareva emphasized that in order to protect against such a fraudulent scheme, you need to stop talking to the credit institution whose phone number is indicated in the service contract or on the back of the card, and contact yourself.
It was learned that the attackers had appeared before. came with A new fraudulent way to steal money from citizens’ accounts.