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Fraudsters force victims to set up SMS forwarding so they can access online banking. Phone scammers began calling bank customers under the guise of a support service for mobile operators. About this with reference to the press service of VTB reports RIA Novosti. “Scammers call customers under the guise of a support service for mobile operators and report allegedly that a subscriber’s personal account or phone has been hacked,” the bank said in a statement.
In order to prevent leakage of personal data, the caller offers the subscriber to dial a special USSD command, consisting of a combination of numbers and symbols that are entered during the call, and then dial the phone number. This is supposedly necessary to prevent the dissemination of personal data. However, in reality, the client of the mobile operator independently sets the forwarding of SMS messages and calls to the scammer's number.
VTB noted that after that, the scammers can call the subscriber again and report that the “hacking problem” has been eliminated, but at this time they themselves receive codes from messages. As a result, attackers can steal money from bank accounts by gaining access to the bank's personal account, the credit institution added.
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In order to prevent leakage of personal data, the caller offers the subscriber to dial a special USSD command, consisting of a combination of numbers and symbols that are entered during the call, and then dial the phone number. This is supposedly necessary to prevent the dissemination of personal data. However, in reality, the client of the mobile operator independently sets the forwarding of SMS messages and calls to the scammer's number.
VTB noted that after that, the scammers can call the subscriber again and report that the “hacking problem” has been eliminated, but at this time they themselves receive codes from messages. As a result, attackers can steal money from bank accounts by gaining access to the bank's personal account, the credit institution added.
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