According to ESET experts, one of these fraudsters' tricks is related to travel services: criminals pretend to be employees of travel companies and ask victims to make an advance payment.
The second scheme popular among fraudsters is fake websites, where one can allegedly receive "New Year's payments from the state." "Hackers fake web pages under the banner of law firms or imitate the sites of popular banks, where they ask you to enter card details to receive funds," the experts explained.
Analysts also warned that the data on the expiration date of the bank card and the three-digit CVV number cannot be transferred under any circumstances. "This information is needed only for payment, but certainly not for receiving money," noted in ESET.
Experts have also recorded a serious increase in the number of fake food delivery sites. Fraudsters completely imitate the appearance of popular sites and then use them to find out the bank data of Russians and withdraw money from cards.
Domain names of real and fake sites often differ from each other by just one character. “For example, dellivery-club instead of delivery-club or eda.ynadex instead of eda.yandex,” the company explained.
Experts noted that the victims of attackers are also often fans of ski resorts. "Attackers take advantage of the desire of Russians to save money and sell fake online tickets to ski slopes," ESET stressed.
ESET experts also warned that cybercriminals often send congratulatory emails, offering to click on malicious links.
Scammers know that on the eve of the holidays, companies generously distribute bonuses and gifts to their customers, and take advantage of this. When a person clicks on such a link as a rule he gets to a phishing site where he is asked to fill in personal or banking information. Often such messages contain links to viral software.
