According to Grodno Plus, a 62-year-old Belarusian pensioner has become a victim of fraud. All because the man wanted to buy a virtual currency for Hamster Kombat for real money. He decided to do this through a chat bot in Telegram.
The man wanted to buy 300 tokens. In the chatbot, he was told...
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I hope you know Warren Buffett. If you don't, you'll never earn respect in the financial world, where he is idolized. And for good reason. Warren Buffett is one...
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Under almost every article about saving, you will find commentators who ask how and why they should save if their income is only enough for the essentials. However, if a person with a high income can still afford indulgences, then...
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Nowadays, the world of fraud is very vast, diverse and varied. Almost every day new and sophisticated ways of deceiving gullible citizens appear. Anyone, even a very mediocre swindler, knows that each person has his own so-called...
Hello Anonymous. As you might have already guessed, we will talk about how much it costs you to get into carding. This question comes up often. Probably the only more popular question is: “What do I need to start working with you?” Apparently it’s worth looking into it on a large scale and...
Carders put pressure on feelings, rush and threaten.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, since the beginning of 2023, more than 13.7 thousand cases of carding have been registered throughout the country. Not only naive and poorly educated people fall for...
Fraud appeared long before the emergence of money - back in the days of natural exchange. Some schemes are so well thought out that they have been working for several decades and even millennia, still allowing scammers to profit from human stupidity or naivety. To prevent you from falling for...
In this world, perhaps not the most fair and honest, but very interesting, you can get money in different ways, you can earn it, or you can steal it. Stealing money, as a rule, is easier than earning it, so people are naturally inclined to steal, and some of them, as life shows, are quite...
How do hackers disguise hotbeds of viruses so that they occupy high positions in search results?
Cybersecurity company announced a new operation to distribute the Vidar infostiler through fake sites disguised as Windows activation tools that are so popular in the CIS countries, such as KMSpico...
It has long been known that money in someone else's pocket does not allow all sorts of dark personalities to sleep peacefully, but in recent years crime has increasingly moved into the world of digital technologies, and in pockets more and more often instead of cash there is only a bank plastic...
All modern bank cards are equipped with contactless payment chips. When making a purchase in a store, you just need to touch the card to the terminal, and not swipe it, as was the case before.
Banks could not ignore cash withdrawals - an operation that is still one of the most popular...
Quite recently, a fundamentally improved version of the theft of funds was discovered - a new method of stealing money from cards equipped with PayWave and PayPass technologies - criminals intercept signals from such bank cards “over the air” using homemade readers.
Plastic cards with...
The Chulymsky District Court of the Novosibirsk Region ordered the dropper who provided his bank account to cyber fraudsters to return the money stolen from the pensioner, the Crimean prosecutor's office reports.
"The court granted the claim of the prosecutor's office to recover from the...
The Bank of Russia plans to focus its work on combating droppership—teenagers are actively being drawn into this activity: wanting to earn 3 thousand rubles, schoolchildren become accomplices in criminal cases. Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia German Zubarev stated this in an interview with...
According to a study by the Financial Supervisory Service of South Korea (FSS) and the Financial Intelligence Unit of South Korea, seven out of ten crypto exchanges that closed in the country were unable to return money to customers.
The report indicates that six of the seven cryptocurrency...
Former Russian carder Pavel Sitnikov told Kommersant about the work of Russian-language carding forums and the consequences of their carding.
— When and how did Russian-language carding forums appear?
— Forums appeared in the 1990s for the exchange of information and communication between...
An investigator of the investigative unit of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Khabarovsk Territory has completed the investigation of a criminal case on large-scale embezzlement of funds from bank accounts.
It is established that in the period...
Bank card fraud schemes are becoming increasingly sophisticated.
According to information from law enforcement agencies, carders have improved their methods of stealing money from bank cards. Along with already known schemes, criminals are coming up with new ways to siphon funds from people’s...
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Is it really true that the money was written off unauthorized?
Possible reasons for writing off without notice
What to do if money is stolen
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Is it possible to return written-off funds?
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Last year, the Central Bank registered 876.6 thousand cases of theft of money from bank cards.
According to statistics, the average size of one such transfer in 2018 was 3,320 rubles, and in 2022 it was already 15,320 rubles. We studied the Central Bank's analytics and talked with Tinkoff Bank...