New - old fraud scheme

[Brother]

Christ is Risen Friends, Happy Easter to All of you - peace to your home and prosperity.

I bring to your attention the material that for someone will be new and useful, and someone will remember the crazy 90s and zero, because as you know everything new is a well forgotten and modified old

Let's talk about fraud (misleading an ordinary person in order to take possession of his money). A person is weak in spirit and wants to believe in miracles, scammers always use this, not so long ago a wave of offers to participate in surveys began, and to receive a monetary reward for this, but in reality you will not gain, but lose…. attackers steal your personal and payment data ..

The essence of the scheme:

• The user is shown an advertisement asking them to spend a few minutes taking the survey.
• The user follows the link and takes part in the survey.
• During the survey - the user is asked to provide a full name, email address and phone number.
• The site informs that a certain amount of money (usually several tens of thousands of rubles) can be credited to the account, but it is necessary to make a "fixing payment".
• The user opens the payment page and sees an interface for entering bank card data.
• The page for entering payment data is not the bank's home page, but a phishing site (fake bank page) through which your card details are deceived from you.
• The further fate of your data is very ambiguous ...
• May make small purchases, but large quantities
• Can resell data through the site of carders (those who specialize in theft from cards)

Where can you find such polls:

Advertising of such surveys is most common

• In internet games
• In social networks
• In commercials
• It is worth noting that images of public people are often used in video content, in this way they try to inspire more confidence in the user.

But it can also be found in other additional sources on the Internet.

Examples:

On April 17, subscribers of the Vkontakte community of the Karusel network (54,000 people) received a message asking them to take a paid survey. It contained a link to a site hosted on the Ucoz service, and from there a direct redirect to another site took place.

Earlier, a similar fraudulent scheme was described in Kommersant. The publication found out that the money was withdrawn through SIM-cards and the personal account of the operator Tele2. Mobile Research Group analyst Eldar Murtazin believes that the vulnerability in the payment system, which allowed the launch of this scheme, was created by Tele2 itself in order to increase the average revenue per subscriber, as well as increase the subscriber base. Tele2 denies involvement in scammers and claims to fight them

Summing up this material, it is worth recalling that:

• Free cheese only in a mousetrap
• Fraudsters do not sleep, and actively use modern technology and human gullibility.

Happy holidays everyone and be careful