Fraudsters are getting smarter. How to beat them?

Evgeny Egorov, Leading Analyst of the Digital Risk Protection Department of Group-IB, in an interview with the Prime agency called

A way to protect Russians from new cybercriminal schemes.

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According to him, attackers do not stop improving phone fraud schemes.

The most popular scenarios are calls from the "bank security service" and "law enforcement officers" who warnattempts to debit funds from the victim's account, or that the funds need to be transferred to a "safe account"

Evgeniy EgorovLead Analyst of Digital Risk Protection Group-IB

This is how scammers try to manipulate the "news agenda."call a "lawyer" who will offer a way to "avoid partial mobilization".

Yegorov strongly discourages reportingdata from the reverse side of a bank card (CVV), code or code word to intruders. And also, you should not follow suspicious links in SMS messages; in case of a call, you must inform your bank of the fraudster's number.