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The scammers began to use slightly more aggressive tactics when calling potential victims. Now Russians are intimidated by criminal prosecution when they try to contact a bank to clarify information.
Evgenia Lazareva, who heads the Popular Front project "For the Rights of Borrowers", warned citizens about the new tricks of the attackers. Lazareva clarified that the scammers are trying to persuade the victim to transfer all the money to a "temporary account" as soon as possible.
By phone, the user is explained that this must be done in order to save their own funds. Additionally, the citizen is asked to name the e-mail address, to which fake letters are then sent.
All of them are disguised as notifications from the Bank of Russia and the credit institution in which the user is served. Such letters contain the details of this very "temporary account", where all the money "will be safe" until the completion of the fictitious update of the personal account.
Also, the head of the front "For the rights of borrowers" emphasized: letters from fraudsters can also be disguised as notifications from the prosecutor's office, the FSSP, the Pension Fund and other bodies.
In an interview with RIA Novosti, Lazareva urged to pay attention to an interesting nuance - the threat of criminal liability "for the dissemination of information during routine maintenance." In other words, a citizen should not call a bank to check information, otherwise an article will await him.
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