The interior Ministry told how fraudsters steal passport data through bots

In the Department of the Ministry of internal Affairs on combating the illegal use of information and communication technologies warned about a new trick scammers. Russian citizens are sent messages allegedly from management companies, homeowners’ associations or emergency services. They offer to go to the Telegram-bot.

Such a bot copies the type of government services, including GIS housing and communal services. Under the pretext of checking, a person is asked for confidential information - surname, name, patronymic, passport data, SNILS, TIN and phone number. To encourage the transition, the attackers are frightened by an imminent disconnection of water or electricity or large fines for allegedly untransmitted readings of meters.

When the necessary information is received, the victim is sent a fake notification. It claims that this information was intercepted by fraudsters. After that, the pseudo-employees refer to the need to protect accounts or prevent the blocking of credit and try to find out the codes from SMS and bank card details. In some cases, a person is persuaded to transfer money to a so-called safe account.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs advises not to act on instructions from such messages, but to call the bank or management company yourself. To do this, you need to use phone numbers posted on the official websites of these organizations.

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