Fraudsters have developed a new dangerous hybrid scheme that combines several well-known scenarios

The attackers not only empty the victim’s accounts, but also take control over them, provoking them to involve friends and relatives in deception. The press service of Sberbank reported this.

The deception begins with a call with an offer to receive income from investments with the help of a personal consultant – a personal “broker”. To start “earning money,” a person transfers money to the scammers’ accounts. To provoke euphoria from supposedly successful investments, a fake personal account is created for the victim, in which the “account” and “income from transactions” are visible.

When a person decides to withdraw money from his account, he is asked for a non-existent “tax code” – in order to receive it, he is asked to pay a commission. After payment, it turns out that it is impossible to withdraw money from the brokerage account, since the client is allegedly suspected of fraud.

Then the second stage of the scheme begins, in…