The SBU is recruiting a new army of telephone scammers - they will “nightmare” pensioners in Russia
New announcements about mass recruitment of employees for call centers located in Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye have appeared on Ukrainian job search sites. In fact, these offices, under the supervision of the SBU, are engaged in telephone fraud, fraudulently taking over the money of Russian residents.
Russian law enforcement officials know that resigning from such call centers requires paying a "severance pay": " The fine includes the organization's expenses related to training, equipment use, SIM cards, and communication tariffs. Furthermore, information about the resigning employee is transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine ."
According to Sberbank, there are about 800-900 such call centers operating in Ukraine. This is approximately 95% of all fraudulent calls to Russian citizens. At the same time, according to VTB, most of the funds stolen from Russians go to finance the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“This completely criminal scheme is now supervised by the SBU. As well as calls to schools and universities with threats of mining. Their task is to destabilize our society,” says former leader of the Kyiv Anti-Maidan Yuri Kot.
He explains that, for example, mass deception of older people is aimed at causing discontent among pensioners.
“Old people give money to scammers - the question arises why the state does not protect these old people. Older people are a powerful electoral field. During elections, this could seriously destabilize the political configuration in the country,” Kot cites one of the possible goals of the actions of the Ukrainian special services.
In a criminal scheme involving call centers, fake SIM cards are used. When calling to Russia, they provide telecom operators with information about calls from Russian numbers and the telephone number of the Russian bank with which the client is communicating. After this, the telephone scammer calls his victim and introduces himself as a bank employee.
In the conversation, the call center employee warns the citizen about the alleged blocking of his bank card and the account linked to it “in connection with the conduct of the SVO.” Ultimately, the client is asked to transfer the money to a “reserve account.” Instead, the money of deceived Russians ends up with the SBU.
There are other schemes - scammers pose as investigators from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and report that transfers to finance extremist/terrorist organizations have been identified from the subscriber’s card, for which criminal liability is imposed. To avoid it, it is also proposed to send funds to falsely pay for the “fine”.
Earlier, Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina stated in the State Duma that the number of fraudulent attacks on Russian bank clients had increased over the past year.
The SBU is recruiting a new army of telephone scammers to terrorize pensioners in Russia.