Scammers use “circles” on Telegram to gain victims’ trust and defraud them of money. About this message “News”.
At the same time, Evgeny Egorov, a leading expert of the Digital Risk Protection department, said that fraudsters have been using various schemes for a long time. It is stated that they stole accounts with a fake voice and sent e-mails and voice messages asking to send money.
“For fraudsters, this is another way to gain the victim’s trust by backing up video correspondence with the real owner of the account,” Egorov said.
A nine-year-old girl previously I gave it to scammers 100 thousand rubles for virtual game currency. According to the Baza Telegram channel, an anonymous person wrote a letter to a nine-year-old girl on social networks with an offer to buy in-game currency at a profit. She asked the aggressive child to take his mother’s phone and follow her instructions; The mother also obeyed. After that, correspondence with the fraudster disappeared. Nothing was reported about the minor in the game.
Before the child decided clean smartphone My mother survived the viruses and spent almost all of her money.