The first deputy head of the information security department of the Central Bank of Russia, Artem Sychev, said in an interview with RIA Novosti that fraudsters challenged Russian banks, trying more and more often to force their victims to transfer money to them in a bank other than their own.
According to him, cybercriminals understand that if fraudulent activity passes through payment systems, then it is most likely to be stopped on the bank’s side.
Therefore, now, Sychev said, scammers, using the old pretext of allegedly threatening money in the account or some other legend, are trying to provoke a client to come to the branch, withdraw their money and then send it to the attacker through a payment terminal or ATM of another bank.
Thus, the servicing bank sees only withdrawals and will not be able to protect the client’s funds. “This is a serious challenge that requires a separate study on our side,” said the representative of the Central Bank.
Earlier, Sychev said that the “average bill” of telephone fraudsters when extorting funds from Russians is at least 10 thousand rubles. This is the amount the criminals steal in one call. At the same time, previously it was enough for scammers to call and speak to the victim, but now people began to quickly identify them, which pushed criminals to new methods, for example, substitution of numbers.