This was reported in the report of the center for monitoring and responding to computer attacks in the credit and financial sector of the Central Bank Information Security Department.

It is noted that using the technology of replacing an outgoing telephone number with numbers identical to the numbers of call centers of banks, the attackers posed as security personnel. This allowed them to "under the guise of blocking suspicious transactions commit theft of funds of victims."

In August, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported that fraudsters use a new type of telephone deception under the guise of representatives of Russian banks to debit funds from customer accounts.

The head of the SRO "Microfinance and Development", the former vice-president of the Association of Banks of Russia Elman Mehdiyev, in an interview with the NSN, commented on reports of a new type of fraud.