scammers

Living on another continent did not save cyberbandsters from justice. The US Department of Justice has convicted a Nigerian citizen for participating in a business email compromise scam (BEC attack) that caused $1.5 million in damages. Ebuka Raphael Umethi, aged 35, along with two alleged...

Four Russians (one from the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the rest from the Omsk Region) found a way to exploit the vulnerability they discovered in a taxi ordering application. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs Media portal, the scheme has been in operation since November 2022. “The...

As soon as you hear them, feel free to stop talking. Telephone fraud has become a part of our lives, and, unfortunately, it is not yet possible to defeat it. At the same time, the amounts that gullible Russians send to deceivers amount to billions of rubles. According to the Central Bank, in...

Picasso argued that “art is a lie that tells the truth,” writer Ursula Le Guin admitted that “deception is the novelist’s bread,” and Marlon Brando once said, “If you If you know how to lie, you can be an actor.” The work of any storyteller, marketer or copywriter largely consists of persuasion...

They scam us out of our smartphones and other things, without resorting to violence, in broad daylight. The trouble is that we don't recognize when we're meeting a scammer: they just don't look like one! After reading this article, you will know what to look for. The content of the article...

On the eve of the holiday season, the number of fraudulent sites offering ticket and hotel reservations has increased. So, when a victim gets to such an Internet resource, when paying for tours, hotels or tickets, he transfers bank card data to the hands of intruders. According to the company...

57-year-old Lilia fell for the classic scheme: unknown people called her, introduced themselves as "FSB officers" and told the woman that her money was in danger and they needed to be transferred to "safe deposit boxes", and then it started... For the next 10 days, Lilia went to banks, cashed...

25+ resources promise to bypass the kicksharing rules. F. A. C. C. T specialists found at least 25 resources that suggest circumventing the rules of kicksharing services. These resources include groups in social networks, channels, and messenger bots that offer users various ways to illegally...

The criminals built a makeshift antenna for a large-scale campaign, but somewhere they miscalculated... British law enforcement officers have managed to uncover an unprecedented Internet fraud scheme in which attackers used a makeshift phone tower for a massive phishing operation. Two suspects...

Charlatans play on our weaknesses and skillfully scam us out of money. But this can be resisted. Do you think that only narrow-minded people fall into the clutches of scammers, and you are not in danger? Who would now believe that they won an iPhone or received an inheritance from a rich...

Hi all! Even if you are an advanced Internet user, no one is immune from becoming a victim of financial fraud. You may not even be aware of the new schemes of scammers on the Internet. In this article, I decided to touch on this serious topic, since every user should be familiar with it. Let's...

Let's face the obvious: 2024 is a restless time for many. We get nervous, worry, fuss, discuss it with friends. And who benefits from general nervousness? That's right - scammers! In a state of imbalance, it is easier to fool a person and steal money from his bank card. Don't want to get...

Carding is one of the branches of hacking with a specific specialization consisting in fraud with bank cards. There is strict specialization in carding. Someone gets pin codes and card numbers, someone makes so-called “white plastic” - credit cards on which the data of a real card is recorded...

As a continuation of my previous articles about scammers, I will write about who romantic scammers really are, how to recognize them and what “interest” you can gain from communicating with them. Who are they really? Most of them are Africans from English-speaking countries, such as Nigeria and...

Phishing sites, lotteries, phantom insurance... and 7 more schemes. The term scam has been heard especially often in social networks, in the media, bloggers and other sources over the past few months. Fraud, fraud, scam, gray scheme - all these words can be used to describe the term scam. Anyone...

In the four months of this year, fraudsters fraudulently lured a total of 7.081 million euros from customers of the four largest Latvian banks, which is 2.1 times more than it was in the first four months of 2023, according to published data from the Finance Latvia Association. In total, in the...

Greetings to all! Today I want to tell you how to avoid scammers who would like to empty your bank accounts. There are several commonly used scams and I will describe one of them. Let's start with the fact that any software has weaknesses. No matter how sophisticated the software is, the vast...

Act 1, in which they kindly tell me about other scammers. Everyone has heard of modern telephone scammers. Many have heard about how seemingly innocent acquaintances fell for their bait. How to avoid becoming a victim? It would probably be useful to know the scenarios of such “divorces” in...

Cyclical redirects turn online advertising into a giant financial trap. Researchers have identified two fraudulent networks that redirect hundreds of millions of online ads to pop-ups on questionable websites every day. In a May 30 report, Human Security called these networks "Merry-Go-Round"...

The phishing campaign was discovered by analysts from the CERT-F.A.C.C.T. team. The scammers offered to create licenses not only for driving a car, but also a motorcycle, a truck and a sailboat. ⬆️ F.A.C.C.T. specialists identified 203 fraudulent resources, a quarter of these pages were...