Kharkovites were hit by Internet scammers who took advantage of the situation in the country

19 May 2017, 00:58 | Technologies
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Literally immediately after the President of Ukraine signed the decree on the blocking of Russian Internet resources, Kharkiv citizens began to receive strange letters.

"My wife on the official mail received a letter on the form of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine with information about the verification in connection with the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers. Information allegedly was in the attached file, - says Nicholas. - When trying to open an archive file, we found that there is a program created for programmatic access to application objects. The insidious message could neither be forwarded nor deleted. Only with the help of programmers was it possible to get rid of the malicious file. Those said that if the file was opened the program could start automatically, encrypt access to all files and even a user's photo, and for unblocking, scammers could demand for money ".

As the interlocutor noted, the e-mail address and the form on which the text was posted were very similar to the official. Only when they looked closely, realized that the original and the fake are literally a pair of letters.

As explained in the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, they receive many such appeals.

"Such letters are sent by scammers. We appeal to the payers with a request to carefully study the email address of the sender of the letter and verify its reliability, "the GFS noted..




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