Beeline before the Knowledge Day revealed the most popular schemes for deceiving schoolchildren and students

At the beginning of the school year, schoolchildren and students have more loads and stress – hence the increase in vulnerability to various kinds of activity of scammers.

“The Biline quick response group has analyzed data on harmful activity in recent years and called the top 3 methods that scammers are more likely to use on the eve of September 1. Explore them, pass on to younger relatives – and be careful so that losses and experiences do not overshadow the beginning of autumn, ”Beeline said.

A call from the selection committee or dean. At first, an allegedly representative of the university calls an applicant or student and, under one or another pretext, lures the code from SMS from him. Further, the subscriber is associated with an “employee of Roskomnadzor / Rosfinmonitoring / Police” and reports: the scammers tried to hack his accounts, but they did not succeed. To protect himself for the future, he needs to install the bank application to protect against scammers. Further, with the help of a malicious program, attackers create a virtual copy of the customer’s bank card and take money from it contactlessly.

Notification of blocking the electronic diary or access to the educational platform. In this case, the student comes an email or message in the messenger: access to an important resource is suspended, follow the link to restore it. The link turns out to be phishing, with its help, scammers steal personal information of the victim or lure the code from it to the account on the “public services”, in the banking application, etc.

The proposal to register on the educational resource. This is another way to force the subscriber to cross the phishing link – under the pretext of registering on the training portal or in the university application, or entering into the chat of students / graduates / applicants. Typically, for this it is necessary to name the code, turn on the screen demonstration or launch a bot with authorization through the “public services”.

The Beeline quick response group was created to ensure information security and emergency assistance to company customers. If you suspect that you or your child is a victim of one of these or any other fraudulent scheme, contact the group using an electronic Beeline consultant by number 0611 or in a chat of a mobile application. Employees will quickly connect and try to help you.

But it is better that the need for decisive actions does not arise. For this, it is important to remember a few simple rules:

• Do not communicate with strangers on the phone, in instant messengers and social networks.
• Never dictate by phone SMS codes and do not include a screen demonstration at someone's request.
• Do not follow the links from strangers and, in general, according to any links from messages and letters that look suspicious.
• Remember that real employees of state institutions never solve important issues by phone or in the messenger.
• Immediately put the phone if the interlocutor is trying to press, rush or threaten.

And in order to reduce the risks of falling on the hook and getting rid of excess stress of yourself and your loved ones, connect the “My Security” service in the Beeline application. He protects subscribers from unwanted calls and interrupts dangerous conversations, and if the trouble still occurred, helps to compensate for losses.

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