Anton Nemkin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, stated that Russia is once again seeing a significant increase in fraudulent calls made on behalf of Russian Post. TASS reports this.
According to the deputy, recently there have been active reports of scam calls where criminals impersonate postal service employees.
He described a typical scam scenario: fraudsters call, pretending to be from a sorting center, and report problems with a package. They then push the person to move the conversation to a Telegram bot, where under the pretext of clarifying details or verifying identity via services like “Gosuslugi” (State Services) or “Pochta ID”, personal information is collected and stolen. Nemkin emphasized that this step is key to data theft.
Nemkin particularly noted that neither Russian Post, nor the Gosuslugi portal, nor any other state organizations ever request confidential information or authorization data via chatbots in messengers. Any requests to log in or provide data via links are a clear sign of fraudulent activity.
It was also reported about another type of scam, previously highlighted by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), targeting teenagers. Criminals mislead a child, claiming they failed a psychological test and their results became publicly available. After this, they send a phishing link, opening which the victim supposedly sees their personal information. MVD specialists warn that data is stolen this way.
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