Police report new scheme of cyber fraudsters: offer to switch to “electronic medical card”

Residents of Mogilev region because of the new scheme of deception scammers for the week lost more than 35 thousand. This was reported in the Department of Internal Affairs of the Mogilev Regional Executive Committee, writes sb.by.

- Over the past week, 26 cybercrimes were registered in the Mogilev region. Trusting citizens lost a total of more than 35,000 rubles. Thanks to timely preventive work, the police managed to save more than 45,000 rubles from three residents of the region who were already under psychological pressure from scammers, but received help in time, Roman Romanenko, head of the Internal Affairs Code of the Mogilev Regional Executive Committee, said.

Scam schemes do not fundamentally change, only the cheating scenario is updated.

- Calls from scammers posing as healthcare workers are gaining popularity. Under the pretext of switching to an electronic medical card, they are trying to lure personal data from citizens. Immediately after the victim, a false law enforcement officer calls and acts according to the usual scenario: he reports that the person communicated with the criminal and revealed his data to him. Further, the scammer begins to intimidate, threatens with a search, seizure of all undeclared savings, offering to transfer them to a “safe account” or urgently take a real loan to cancel the application of scammers, the police added.

To protect yourself and your money, remember three rules: representatives of government agencies never call in messengers (Viber, Telegram, WhatsApp), civil servants and bank employees never ask to name a code from SMS, no “remote declaration” and “safe accounts” do not exist.

If you receive such a call, immediately hang up and contact the institution on whose behalf you were called by official phone numbers. Minchanka gave fraudsters more than 15 thousand dollars, but the money was returned

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