Imagine: your phone is bombarded with notifications, hundreds of messages from banks and services arrive within a minute. Then strangers start calling and asking to dictate the code.
This is how SMS bombing works - a trick that scammers use to try to annoy you in order to gain access to your accounts.
Together with the People's Front, we tell you what to do in such a situation, and at the same time - about the new application Mashlobka, which "Vyberu.ru" and the NF have developed specifically to protect against such programs.
Why do scammers need it?
The flow of messages is just a pressure tool. When the phone keeps ringing, you can get distracted and miss something important: a warning about changing your password or charging money.
While you are trying to make sense of the chaos of notifications, criminals are hacking your profiles: they ask you to dictate codes from SMS, give your password or other personal data.
Step by step action plan.
A flood of messages followed by calls?
1. Don't answer them.
2. Immediately change your password in the state services.
3. Write to the bank using the app's chat and warn about the spam attack.
4. Contact your mobile operator and ask to temporarily disable SMS and incoming calls.
5. Do not tell anyone the codes from the messages.
6. Contact the police.
חשוב! הרמאים מצפים ממך לפחד ומבולבל. לכן, נסו להישאר רגועים – אז הפושעים לא יצליחו.
How does Moshtrap work?
An application from the All-Russian People's Front helps to recognize the plots of criminals.
There you can check a suspicious number, link or message, and also learn about new scammers' tricks. In addition, "Catch" will tell you what to do if you have already encountered deception.