Scammers are setting "cloud" traps for the residents of Buryatia.

Scammers are setting "cloud" traps for the residents of Buryatia.

At the end of last week, 12 offenses using information technology were registered in the Republic of Buryatia, the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. Nine of them were cyber fraud, one case each - theft from a bank account, extortion and illegal access to computer information. The total damage reached 190,545 rubles, of which 157,045 fell on the residents of Ulan-Ude. The main plan these days has been the use of cloud storage by attackers. In the Buryatia regions, facts of fraud under this pretext were recorded, the total amount of damage was 64,000 rubles. In the Tonkinsky district, a 24-year-old resident lost 52 thousand rubles. In the dispatch, a man met her and asked for access to her cloud storage, claiming a malfunction in the phone. And after the girl entered the account according to his data, he announced the blocking of the profile and demanded four transfers of 13 thousand rubles each to remove the block. In Kyakhta district, a 30-year-old woman lost 12 thousand rubles while looking for an inspector vacancy. The "employer" sent her a login and password from cloud storage to connect to a corporate account. After logging in, the smartphone screen was blocked, and to remove the block it was necessary to transfer 6,000 rubles, and then the same amount.