“Stoloto” – the largest distributor of All-Russian state lotteries (included in the S8 Capital holding, belonging to Armen Sargsyan) and Group IB, an international company specializing in the prevention of cyberak, from the beginning of 2019, found and blocked 2.74 thousand fraudulent sites, 84 postal addresses that were sent by phishing letters, as well as 5.6 thousand fake accounts, groups, in social networks and the “twin” news pages used for illegal actions. This was reported by the press service “Stoloto”.
“The ecosystem of the lottery business is identical to the ecosystem of any major financial institution. Therefore, ensuring the safety of lottery participants is always at the head of the corner. Work on regular monitoring, blocking and preventing fraud under the guise of state lotteries is carried out by the company 24/7, 365 days a year. “- commented on the news director for digital transformation and business analysis of the holding S8 Capital Andrei Kondratyev.
According to GROUP-IB among Internet fraudsters operating in the segment of the lotteries, the most frequently used scheme is the so-called “Rabbit Nora” – a large-scale multi-stage scam, within which users pass a plurality of stages, turning to different sites, starting From messengers and social networks and ending with hidden web resources, an individual phishing link is formed to access each sacrifice. The victim gives the “ticket”, which in the process of the draw naturally turns out to be winning. You can pick up a large amount by paying a small “commission”. The winner is sent to the phishing resource, where he must enter the data of the bank card. As a result, the victim loses money for the “Commission” and data cards.
In order not to be a victim of online fraudsters, “Stoloto” recommends: pay close attention to the domain name in the address bar (visual sites may coincide, but the name in the address bar may vary); Do not follow links from email messages and SMS messages that promise free tickets or notify about winning in lotteries in which you did not participate; Add a genuine lottery resource to the browser bookmark to minimize the risk of “twins”; pay attention to the warnings of browsers about visiting dangerous (phishing sites) sites; Report fraud in the form of feedback on the website distributor of state lotteries.
According to the Deputy General Director of GROUP-IB in the direction of protection against digital risks Andrei Busargin, scammers constantly improve their detection methods, mastering new niches and earnings schemes. “This problem is relevant for any business involved in the sales of goods or services on the Internet. In order to ensure the safety of customers, companies need to keep the hand” on the pulse “and be in the trend of modern solutions capable of identically time to identify and block such threats.” – he stressed.