Interior Ministry warned of a new scheme to steal accounts on "State Services"
Fraudsters are using a new scheme that targets children. This was reported on January 17 in the Department for the organization of the fight against the illegal use of information and communication technologies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
"Attackers under the guise of heads of educational organization or teachers call parents under the pretext of updating the electronic journal, lists of students or student profile in "Sphere"," - said in the Telegram-channel of the department.
To "update the electronic journal" fraudsters ask to provide a code from a sms-message, which is subsequently used to access the account on "Gosuslugi".In addition, scammers can warn the parent about the upcoming call from the school, and then learn the confirmation code from the child.
The Department for the organization of the fight against the illegal use of information and communication technologies specified that for plausibility fraudsters use the data of real school employees. In addition, dipfakes and substitute numbers are also used.
Before that, on January 13, the press service of the Department of Education and Science of Moscow reported that in the capital there are more cases of fraud on behalf of alleged employees of educational institutions, who request a code from the application "Gosuservices" to continue studying in the second half of the year.