“Recently, scammers have been calling people under the guise of bank employees and reporting a shortage of cash, including currency,” he said in an interview with Izvestia.
Uvarov said that under this pretext, scammers offer to transfer money to a special account, from which a person can subsequently allegedly withdraw funds without hindrance, and for this they request the client's bank card details.
Another fraudulent scheme is an offer to issue cards of Visa and Mastercard payment systems, which supposedly can be used to pay abroad.
“Scammers offer to open an account in a foreign bank and issue a virtual card for a fee,” Uvarov concluded.
Earlier, Sberbank warned about the appearance of fraudulent bank applications in the App Store.
Information security expert Aleksey Lukatsky, in an interview with Newinform, spoke about new informational occasions used by scammers.