This is a new scam that can drain your account: Never do this

Sber Bank, important banking institution in Russia and Eastern Europe, raised the alarm about new fraud discovered and this makes the mobile phone user who naively decides to screen share by following the instructions of the scammers and using a popular option in messaging applications, a victim of fraud.

To commit deception, they two cybercriminals those who contact the victim at different times, whom they lead to believe that they are calling through a messaging app from the bank that raised the alarm.

How deception works

First, the prospective employee asks if the victim has recently updated their banking app.. If the answer is no, you are told that a specialist will call you to help you do this. With the help of this trick, scammers try to gain the trust of their interlocutor and make him look serious.

He second cybercriminal will ask you to make a video call to continue biometric identification of the client and update the application. For this operation, you will be asked to enable screen sharing to connect to a fake “robotic account diagnostic system.”

By agreeing to this request, the victim gives access to their banking credentials and other sensitive information, allowing the scammers to wipe out their accounts.

Sberbank has made public the modus operandi of these scammers and at the same time reminded its users that the bank will never make requests of this type. At the same time, this alert serves to warn customers of other banking institutions about the activities of these cybercriminals who In a similar way, they could try to deceive users of other banks.