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The company F. A. C. C. T., a Russian developer of technologies to combat cybercrime, has discovered a new version of the popular fraudulent scheme Fake Date (from English — "fake date"). Now criminals are trying to steal money from the victim even before buying movie or theater tickets under the guise of paying for home Internet or ordering a taxi, using fake mobile applications. In the fall of 2023, six fraudulent groups worked in Russia under the Fake Date scheme, and the illegal earnings of only one of them exceeded 6.5 million rubles in 10 days. This was reported to CNews by representatives of F. A. C. C. T.
The classic Fake Date scheme is as follows: under the guise of an attractive girl, a fraudster meets a potential victim in social networks or on a dating site and offers to spend a romantic evening in the theater, at a stand-up show, in a cinema, hookah bar, or order dinner delivery. The victim receives a link to a phishing site, pays for "tickets", and money and card details are stolen by intruders. It happens that money is debited twice or three times — when buying a ticket for a "friend" or making a "refund".
After this scheme became known in some detail, the scammers decided to change the mechanics. Now they steal money much earlier than going on a first date, and instead of phishing resources, they already use a mobile application with embedded spyware.
After interest and trust have already developed between young people, the "girl" may suddenly disappear from the correspondence or her candid photos and videos will take a very long time to load. It turns out that the beauty has problems paying for home Internet and it is the new cavalier who will have to make a small amount.
The girl drops the link to the fake website of the service, from which you need to download the mobile app. The hidden spyware program is able to intercept the entered bank card data and incoming SMS codes to steal money from the accounts of clients of Russian banks. Similarly, the scheme works with ordering a taxi, which the young lady can also ask her new friend.
As of September 2023, itcnm active fraud groups were operating under the Fake Date scheme in Russia. Operating under the scheme with fake dates, only one criminal community in 10 days was able to get more than 6.5 million rubles for 721 operations. The average amount stolen from one victim was about 9,000 rubles, despite the fact that one victim could have several write-offs in a row. For comparison, at the beginning of 2023, seven of the most active groups in Russia earned 5 million rubles for those who want to go on a date (in the period from February 12 to 14, 2023, February 21-23, 2023, and March 6-8, 2023).
"In Russia, the classic Fake Date scam scheme appeared back in 2018, and after the pandemic, with the advent of new tools for generating phishing sites and using card-to-card transfers, it is experiencing a "rebirth", said Evgeny Egorov, a leading analyst at Digital Risk Protection company F. A. C. C. T. groups of scammers earn twice as much on Fake Date as those who work according to the classic "Mammoth" scheme with payment for goods. This may be due to the fact that at the moment the dating scheme already uses more brands (Internet operators, taxis, theaters, movies) for attack scenarios, rather than through the sale of non-existent products on bulletin boards — only brands of two popular services are used there."
All "technical support" for Fake Date is still provided through Telegram: here, community members who attract victims to download a malicious application receive a link to download a mobile application-an APK file, conduct their own shadow online accounting, buy chatbots or golosovushki — pre-recorded audio and video messages on behalf of girls.
The classic Fake Date scheme is as follows: under the guise of an attractive girl, a fraudster meets a potential victim in social networks or on a dating site and offers to spend a romantic evening in the theater, at a stand-up show, in a cinema, hookah bar, or order dinner delivery. The victim receives a link to a phishing site, pays for "tickets", and money and card details are stolen by intruders. It happens that money is debited twice or three times — when buying a ticket for a "friend" or making a "refund".
After this scheme became known in some detail, the scammers decided to change the mechanics. Now they steal money much earlier than going on a first date, and instead of phishing resources, they already use a mobile application with embedded spyware.
After interest and trust have already developed between young people, the "girl" may suddenly disappear from the correspondence or her candid photos and videos will take a very long time to load. It turns out that the beauty has problems paying for home Internet and it is the new cavalier who will have to make a small amount.
The girl drops the link to the fake website of the service, from which you need to download the mobile app. The hidden spyware program is able to intercept the entered bank card data and incoming SMS codes to steal money from the accounts of clients of Russian banks. Similarly, the scheme works with ordering a taxi, which the young lady can also ask her new friend.
As of September 2023, itcnm active fraud groups were operating under the Fake Date scheme in Russia. Operating under the scheme with fake dates, only one criminal community in 10 days was able to get more than 6.5 million rubles for 721 operations. The average amount stolen from one victim was about 9,000 rubles, despite the fact that one victim could have several write-offs in a row. For comparison, at the beginning of 2023, seven of the most active groups in Russia earned 5 million rubles for those who want to go on a date (in the period from February 12 to 14, 2023, February 21-23, 2023, and March 6-8, 2023).
"In Russia, the classic Fake Date scam scheme appeared back in 2018, and after the pandemic, with the advent of new tools for generating phishing sites and using card-to-card transfers, it is experiencing a "rebirth", said Evgeny Egorov, a leading analyst at Digital Risk Protection company F. A. C. C. T. groups of scammers earn twice as much on Fake Date as those who work according to the classic "Mammoth" scheme with payment for goods. This may be due to the fact that at the moment the dating scheme already uses more brands (Internet operators, taxis, theaters, movies) for attack scenarios, rather than through the sale of non-existent products on bulletin boards — only brands of two popular services are used there."
All "technical support" for Fake Date is still provided through Telegram: here, community members who attract victims to download a malicious application receive a link to download a mobile application-an APK file, conduct their own shadow online accounting, buy chatbots or golosovushki — pre-recorded audio and video messages on behalf of girls.
