Bank fraudsters came up with a new way of deception of customers – under the pretext of protecting their cards from disconnecting in Russia the International Interbank Information Transmission System and Making SWIFT payments. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
Unidentified persons are represented by employees of a large Russian bank, stating that SWIFT will turn off in the country, and that the card worked, the client must say its number and CVC code. After that, the fraudsters report that he will be sms with information about making a map to a special list that will not be blocked after a system shutdown.
According to the head of the project of the ONF “For the Rights of Borrowers” Evgenia Lazarev, reports of such calls began to come immediately after the adoption of the resolution of the European Parliament on Russia’s disconnection from SWIFT. “There will be a certain percentage of alarming and gullible citizens who will believe the criminals and prey all the data, and then lose their money,” she believes.
According to her, on average, such schemes live no more than two weeks after the announcement of weighty refutations.
Previously, it also became known that fraudsters, representing the operator of electronic wallets, threaten to translate funds on the Bitkin-Wallet. According to them, if the client does not do this, then a compromising video with its participation will appear on the network.