Fraudsters began deceiving Russians by posing as employees of the tax inspection agency and reporting supposedly negative tax history. Write about the new program with reference to documents from the Ministry of Home Affairs.
It is known that the scammer called the potential victim and introduced himself as a tax inspector. He said a person has unreported income from last year, which could negatively impact their tax history. To resolve the situation, you should go to the territorial inspection agency and make an appointment, you need to provide the code from the SMS message, which an unsuspecting person can do.
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Then an “employee” of the Bank of Russia contacted the victim and said that she had provided the code from SMS to the scammers, who hacked her account on the State Service and gained access to personal data. In this regard, a person is suggested to secure his savings and transfer them to a reserve account. The attackers then called the victim on behalf of representatives of law enforcement agencies and claimed that they were investigating the victim's transfer of funds to terrorists and, to avoid liability, offered to take out a loan to cover the money.
The ministry warns that offers to transfer money to a safe or reserve account indicate that the contact is with scammers.
Previously, the head of Roskachestvo's Center of Digital Expertise, Sergei Kuzmenko, in a conversation with Lenta.ru, warned that scammers are actively creating scam sites for Black Friday. According to him, sales should be taken seriously only in the case of planned purchases, when a person has studied the price in advance and can objectively assess the realism of the discount.
