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The most popular gifts in fraudsters' drawings are listed

Most often, for passing fraudulent surveys, cybercriminals promise to .jpgt" a MacBook, Sony PlayStation 5, iPad Pro or flagship models of Apple and Samsung smartphones, according to a press release from Group-IB, received in.

According to the information security company, the monthly losses of users from personalized fraud in the form of surveys and sweepstakes all over the world amount to $ 80 million (about 5.9 billion rubles). In 2021, in Russia, in fraudulent surveys on behalf of a large retailer, users were fraudulently forced to leave personal data, e-mail, bank card details or logins and passwords of their personal account on a fake website. On average, attackers steal 50 thousand rubles each. from every Russian.

In recent years, the technology for delivering fake content to a victim has changed. Mass spam mailings, SMS, messages in instant messengers or e-mail have been replaced by a personalized approach, according to the company. Now a targeted link is generated for a potential victim.

Previously, she said that the attackers were sending phishing emails on behalf of Yandex.

The most popular gifts in fraudsters' drawings are listed