The Central Bank of Russia proposed to make changes to the Criminal Code to punish telephone fraudsters. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
According to the CB statement, it is necessary to make that criminals using social engineering methods for deceiving the Bank’s customers, fell under part 6 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code “Fraud”. The maximum punishment on which is six years of imprisonment
It is noted that now such crimes can be qualified according to different articles, which complicates attracting offenders to justice.
Previously, telephone fraudsters came up with a new way of deception of Russians. The criminals began to re-attack the Russians by calls on behalf of the Bank’s security service, referring to the previous attempt to lick money. This is a more complex variation of the script for the deception of banking clients using social engineering. During the second call, the attacker reports that the victim was hacked by the personal account of the mobile operator, and therefore SMS notifications from the bank about the attempts of remittances.