Criminals are constantly inventing new schemes, but despite all the “sweet” offers, you must maintain common sense so as not to get into trouble. on air 24 Channels Cybersecurity expert Kostyantyn Korsun explained how fraud schemes on social networks generally work.

Scammers target people’s emotions

Often the potential victim sees a short link. You can never tell by eye whether it is a scam or these.

If you understand that you cannot follow this link, but you really want to, you can copy the link with the right mouse button without opening it, go to the VirusTotal resource, paste the link, press Enter and in a minute Antiviruses of the whole world will check whether this is a link in fraudulent schemes.

There is no need to turn off your common sense if it is still pressed because it is our best weapon. Because they will write to you like this: “You won an apartment in Kiev, the IMF pays 100,000 dollars to every Ukrainian citizen, etc.” You’ll be fooled, you’ll be fooled into thinking you’re running out of time,
– said Korsun.

He emphasized that scammers deliberately attack people’s emotions. But there is no such thing as free in life. It should not be forgotten that if you are offered something valuable and valuable for free, 99% of them are scammers.

Bank card fraud

• Ukrainians began to receive messages about new social payments allegedly made by Ukrainian banks, especially Oschadbank. In fact, banks do not make any payments. In this way, fraudsters only want to know the personal data of trusting citizens in order to gain access to their accounts.
• Meanwhile, almost 90% of all card fraud cases are caused by the disclosure of customers’ personal data. Last year, the amount of losses from fraudulent use of payment cards exceeded 800 million hryvnia; This is 70% more than the previous year.
• Channel 24 has put together several simple and effective ways to prevent fraud with payment cards.