A new wave of fraudulent activities has been recorded in Ukraine, in which criminals disguise themselves as representatives of the Savings Bank in order to obtain personal information of citizens. About this informs Center for Countering Disinformation (CCP).
Ukrainians receive SMS-messages with false information about alleged existing loan debt. At the same time, such messages are received even by those who are not bank clients.
A particular threat is fake chatbots that accurately reproduce the visual style of Oschadbank, creating the impression of an official communication channel. Through such tools, fraudsters try to obtain bank data of users in order to use it for criminal purposes.
Cybersecurity experts warn: you should not click on links from the mentioned messages and use suspicious chatbots. Entering personal information on unverified resources is strictly not recommended. The best protection in such a situation is to block the number of the sender of suspicious SMS and completely ignore the messages.
In the past, similar fraudulent schemes were carried out via e-mail: users were sent letters about the alleged limitation of bank account functions due to failed identity verification. The attackers referred to the fictitious “UA Regulation 6/1005675” and threatened that without updating the data on the specified link, access to some functions would be blocked.
