According to RBC in the company, the daily income of one of the major criminal groups Dreamer Money Gang (DMG), which organized the work of a fraudulent scheme through the Telegram bot, has been more than 200 thousand rubles since the beginning of self-isolation.
The incomes of another such group also more than doubled in the spring of this year: in January, scammers earned 784.6 thousand rubles, in February - 3.5 million rubles, in March - 6.2 million rubles, and in April - 8, 9 million rubles.
The first such fraudulent scheme was discovered by the CERT-GIB Cyber Incident Response Center in August 2019.
Criminals create phishing pages of courier services and publish lots on the boards of free low-cost ads.
After receiving a response from a potential buyer, scammers offer him to arrange delivery and send them to a phishing resource that copies the appearance of the original site. After paying for the goods, fraudsters delete the account and no longer get in touch with the buyer.
In total, Group-IB sent about 250 phishing resources working under this scheme to block. Moreover, over the past six months, their number has increased sevenfold.
In April, Nikolai Pyatizbyantsev, an expert in the field of banking and payment system security, in an interview with FBA “Economics Today” evaluated the new fraud schemes against the background of a coronavirus pandemic.