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A pensioner born in 1956 contacted police department No. 2 of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Astrakhan. The woman said that an unknown person called her and said that her niece had suffered a serious head injury and needed medical attention. Since the girl is in the...

Residents of the region deceived customers using fake ads for the sale of goods. Malefactors face up to 8 years in prison. A 27-year-old resident of the region became the organizer of tima, and for a dense vork, he attracted two fellow countrymen. He coordinated the creation of ads on the OLX...

In India, the activities of a fraudulent cartel that specialized in the use of one-time passwords and operated in the American market were uncovered. The local NDTV channel devoted a 25-minute investigation to this investigation, “Inside The OTP Mafia: Nuh To New York” (Nuh is a city in the...

Big-name "businessmen" have become the key to a new type of cyber-attacks. In Turkey, hackers have come up with a new way to gain access to the data of hotel and airline guests. They pretend to be assistants to influential big-name businessmen who want to book rooms or tickets for their...

Early access sometimes has a lot more disadvantages than advantages... The FBI warns of a new type of fraud, in which cybercriminals offer users to install malicious applications on their smartphones under the guise of beta testing. These apps disguise themselves as legitimate programs with...

Stay alert and don't trust suspicious text messages. Modern scammers are constantly adapting their methods to deceive unsuspecting citizens. One of the new ways is to use the legend of replacing social cards. These attackers call bank customers and, posing as social service employees, offer to...

The Russian Interior Ministry reports on a new scheme of telephone fraudsters. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia reports a sharp increase in the number of cases when telephone scammers from Ukraine deceive Russians not only for money, but also in order to involve them in illegal...

During the day, there were at least 12 arson attempts, both elderly and young people fell for the tricks of scammers. In Russia, at least 11 cases of arson or attempts to set fire to military commissariats occurred per day. Most of the arsonists said they were deceived by scammers who called...

Chinese police have arrested a group of scammers who sold old video cards as new - they bought old video cards in bulk, cleaned them, packed them in new boxes, and sold the devices as new in the domestic market. In total, law enforcement agencies detained 22 people. As part of the...

An ugly duckling has appeared among AI lovers. Cybercriminals distribute fake versions of ChatGPT, Google Bard, Midjourney, and Jasper on Facebook*, which are designed to steal passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive information. A new malware campaign discovered by Check Point...

How does the government deal with cyber fraud and will the new methods work? In Russia, cases of fraud in instant messengers have become more frequent. Attackers send out links to phishing sites and malicious programs under the guise of ordinary ones. Alexander Khinshtein, Chairman of the State...

Common fraud techniques Phone scammers Techniques: They introduce themselves as bank employees and frighten you with the loss of funds. They start talking about transferring money (paying fines, taxes, and services). They force you to take out a loan. Please provide your bank card details (its...

What's it? Fraud-translated from English means "fraud". Antifraud is a system that tracks illegal actions and blocks them. They are most often used to secure financial transactions, such as payment confirmation via a text message code. How do they work? A well-configured anti-fraud tool does...

Scammers are becoming more sophisticated. In this article, we will talk about the latest tactics used by cybercriminals to deceive people on the Internet. The digitalization of our daily lives inadvertently creates a space for malicious users to exploit. When we communicate, do business, and...

Typesquatting is one of the common methods used by cybercriminals to create websites that imitate famous brands. In fact, this technique is a registration of domain names that are similar in spelling to the addresses of popular sites. As specialists from Palo Alto Networks found out ...

In 2021, scammers called at least a third of Russians, and in the first half of 2020, the total number of crimes related to cards and transfers increased by 600%, according to Roskachestvo. This means that not all subscribers can recognize fraudulent calls...

Law enforcement officers of the city of St. Petersburg detained two scammers who stole fuel from gas stations by hacking into servers. Two attackers from St. Petersburg, using malware, made more than 417 free gas stations at gas stations worth over 2.1 million rubles. A 40-year-old previously...

The scammers have latched onto a new topic that has gained popularity in Russia over the past few days. This time, the criminals came up with a way to build a fraudulent scheme around child benefits. Recall that at the beginning of the week, Vladimir Putin promised to pay ten thousand rubles...

Analyzing fraudulent sites, you sometimes marvel at the ingenuity of crooks. Either they offer you free pizza, or morgencoins ... There are also resources that you cannot say immediately that they are fraudulent: these sites simply collect contacts, so that later, after forming a database, they...

Salute to fans of fucking up someone else's account, today I want to advise you 5 cool movies about scammers and scammers. Maverick (1994), by Richard Donner The story is about the tough gambler and sharpie Bret Maverick from the Wild West and the charming thief Annabel. Their main goal is to...