Girl with smartphone and bank card. Archival photoMOSCOW, Jan 21To combat cyber fraud, it makes sense to toughen the responsibility of operators, up to license revocation and criminal liability, says Yury Zhdanov, head of the Russian section of the International Police Association. «We are seeing a trend towards changing and optimizing schemes in telephone fraud for any significant external informational reasons, for example, pseudo-payments, but despite this, traditional tricks such as «security service» and «change of financial number» still work successfully,» Zhdanov told RIA Novosti on Friday.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/b2d21cb93856b42a4c24fcce9ad4065f.jpg" />Internet fraud: how not to become a victim and whether it is possible to return the moneyAccording to him, in 2021, two dominant methods of fraud stood out. This is a scheme with calls on behalf of law enforcement agencies, when the calls copy the actual numbers listed on departmental websites. The number of such messages has grown eightfold by the end of the year. The second scheme is a call from IVR robots (interactive voice menu) about supposedly unauthorized operations. Fraudsters are looking for ways to automate the collection of personal data and reduce costs. The number of such messages increased by 9.7 times. According to Zhdanov, the International Police Association has these statistics as a partner of the Sberbank Cyber Security Center, the largest Russian bank, on behalf of which scammers often act. communication, to strengthen control over the number capacity used by its subscriber and prevent the use by numbers that do not belong to him,» Zhdanov believes. The Russians were warned about a new fraud scheme under the pretext of investment. In addition, according to the police association, it is necessary to «prohibit the operator from using the number capacity that is not allocated to him in the established order» and «oblige the operator receiving traffic to check the legitimacy of using the sender's number.» According to him, it is also necessary to «increase and tighten the responsibility for violation of these measures by from the revocation of a license to provide services and criminal liability for repeated violations,» as well as to increase the cost of licenses in the field of communication and data transmission services. «It is also necessary to provide citizens with the opportunity to complain about fraudulent calls through the State Services portal,» the expert added.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/b4d996c1772d94c25d582383734bad48.jpg" />Phone scammers came up with a new scheme of deception through «Public Services»
