The interior Ministry warned of a new scheme of fraudsters with theft of passport data

The interior Ministry warns of a new scheme in which scammers act on behalf of management companies, associations of homeowners and emergency services. According to the Department for the organization of combating the illegal use of information and communication technologies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, attackers send messages in messengers and social networks and offer to go to the Telegram bot.

This bot masquerades as the interface of state services, for example, GIS housing and communal services, and under the guise of checking requests a person’s name, passport data, SNILS, TIN and phone number. To push the victim to the transition, fraudsters threaten to quickly cut off water or electricity or large fines due to allegedly unreported readings of meters.

After the data is received, a person receives a fake message that the information was allegedly intercepted by fraudsters. Then, under the pretext of protecting accounts or blocking loans, false employees try to lure codes from SMS and bank card details or convince them to transfer money to a so-called secure account.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs recommends not to act on links from such messages, but to independently contact the bank or management company by the numbers indicated on their official websites.

Earlier it was reported that the interior Ministry commented on the information about the raid in the area of China-town in Moscow.