Police are urging citizens to be careful online. Fraudsters are disguising their attacks as official websites and accounts.
To avoid scammers' traps, cyber police advise checking information sources and using two-factor authentication.
Oleksandr Ulyanenkov, head of the department for combating various types of online fraud at the Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine, spoke about this in more detail.
In particular, one of the most common types of fraud is phishing, which is the creation of fake websites that mimic real ones. Attackers often use similar appearance of Internet pages and change only minor details in the link to mislead the user.
«"Fake sites may have an interface identical to real sites, but will contain false information. In this case, the link itself will either have a grammatical error or an extra period, and this site will not be original," explains a representative of the cyber police.
In addition to phishing attacks, users can also fall victim to fraudulent sales offers via social media. Fraudsters create fake accounts with the aim of swindling money using attractive offers. Cyberpolice advise always checking reviews about the seller and paying attention to the date the account was created.
More details in the material Main Directorate of the National Police in the Kharkiv region.