Kommersant: scammers created a copy of Alfa-Bank's website
Unknown people bought the domain alfabank-sdelka.ru, which Alfa-Bank used in 2019. On the resource, the new owner restored the site of the Safe Deal service, which helped companies to conclude contracts online with a guarantee of fulfillment of obligations, Kommersant writes.
A copy of the site is not working yet, but may pose a threat to users, warns the head of the special services block Infosecurity a Softline Company Sergey Trukhachev. The bank said that the site is closed and payment transactions through it are inaccessible, “therefore, it is safe for clients.”
Fake guarantor service from a bank is a rare phenomenon in the Russian phishing industry, experts say. Usually, using this scheme, attackers are looking for a person who wants to make a deal. Then they offer him to do it through a guarantor and send a link to a fake site, as a result the money goes to the scammers. Also, Russians can be offered to use the guarantor service for online purchases of goods and services.
The guarantor is a disinterested person who participates in financial and legal transactions in the role of an intermediary. It can be an individual or a legal entity, an online service or even a state.
Earlier, a video appeared on social networks where a person similar to the head of Tinkoff bank Oleg Tinkov promises to donate half of the amount transferred to the service for investment. Experts called the video a poorly made deepfake, on which traces of editing are visible, and also the voice of another person is inserted.