Overview

• Cyber police report a wave of distance scams in which fake documents or messages include a phone number that pressures recipients to call first.
• Guidance urges residents to check the contact channel, noting that official notifications are not sent through foreign messengers and a WhatsApp message claiming to be from Gosuslugi signals a forgery.
• Authorities emphasize that the sender name is just editable text and that identical customer-support numbers appearing across messages indicate a scam mailing.
• Genuine banks identify themselves, address clients by name and include the last digits of a card, whereas references to a vague “financial organization” are described as 100% fraud.
• If victims call, impostors posing as security staff try to extract one-time SMS codes and card data or push remote-access apps, using urgency and emotional pressure to steal funds.