Hundreds of Kyrgyz citizens massively complain to the police on fraud in the Golden Crown payment system, through which they transfer money to their homeland. This was reported by Izvestia, referring to information from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to the publication, the attacker calls the migrant and, introducing himself as an employee of the service, he convinces the victim to inform the security code from the SMS. At the same time, during the conversation, the criminal calls the victim her personal data so that everything looks believable.
When the victim calls the code, the fraudster issues a loan for a small amount, but with a high percentage that the victim is forced to pay – from 5,000 to 150,000 rubles entered customers’ accounts and immediately disappeared. It is worth noting that most migrants pay such a loan is an overwhelming task.
In one of the case, the janitor Azamat Kurmankulov 3 months after he repaid his loan, the criminals called and said that he had left an application for a loan. And if it was not him, then it is necessary to say the code from SMS to “completely delete your personal data.” Kurmankulov called the code, and 5,000 rubles were written off from his account. A similar situation happened with other foreigners.
It is noteworthy that if the victim doubted, the criminals threatened her with the fact that “without a code, the security service could block the migration map.”
After the numerous appeals of the victims, the Golden Crown recommended that they apply to law enforcement agencies, and also clarified that the loan should be paid in any case, since they themselves called the code to the attackers.
The company explained that the company’s company, the company’s partner, MFIs “Strana Express”, issues loans to customers of the “Golden Crown”. Both firms have already conducted an internal check and refuted a possible leakage of information.
However, the director of the Center for Combating the Fraud of Inform Prisode Pavel Kovalenko believes that the cause of the incident was probably precisely the leak of personal data of customers both from the employees of the payment service and from the recipient’s source, in this case – the Kyrgyzstan Bank.
According to the lawyer Maria Prilepskaya, if the court proves that the Golden Crown violates the rules for storing personal data of users, the loans of debtors are canceled, and if not, the loan will have to be paid.
Activist of the Kyrgyz diaspora Nuraly Abgdiliev claims that scammers aimed precisely on migrants because of their poor knowledge of the Russian language. He said that the victims are preparing a collective statement to the police and a lawsuit.