“Izvestia”: self-ban on loans began to be used in fraudulent schemes

The attackers introduce themselves as employees of the State Service and claim that the self-prohibition was incorrect. After that, a link allegedly leading to the portal comes to the victim’s phone so that the citizen could “correct the application”, Izvestia reports with reference to the Association for the Development of Financial Literacy (ARFG). “After a person goes through it, he gets to a site that imitates public services, enters his data for entry, and they get to the fraudsters,” the experts explained to journalists. Another method of identity theft is used by sending phishing links. When switching to the victim's phone, a malicious program is installed that reads SMS, including codes for entering the same "Public Services" or the bank's application, representatives of the Association told the publication. Phone scammers have also adopted a new tactic of distracting victims with a fake “confirmation code.” Earlier, the expert of “Kaspersky Lab” Sergey Golovanov told what to do if the fraudsters got access to the account on “State Services”.

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