Honored Lawyer of Russia Ivan Solovyov said that fraudsters have mastered new methods of theft with a five thousand dollar bill. The agency reports that “Hit the primer”.
According to him, the fraudster, under the guise of a Central Bank employee, calls people and informs them that they need to check the authenticity of the new $5,000 banknotes. Attackers offer to install applications to verify the authenticity of cash, but in reality the application is phishing and gives attackers access to all devices, which allows them to withdraw money from the victim’s account.
Soloviev added that fraudsters can go from house to house under the guise of social workers offering to replace old banknotes with new (fake) banknotes.
Vahe Zakarian, formerly head of the development team of the Gem Space super app saidIt reveals that fraudsters and hackers are actively using QR code payments to capture users’ personal data.
According to him, the now popular payment method is insecure like traditional payments via debit card.
scammers before developed New scheme with SIM cards.