Experts found more than 3,000 fake shopping websites before the lockdown

On the eve of the lockdown, specialists from the strategic digital risk management company BI.ZONE discovered 3.2 thousand potentially malicious sites masquerading as online markets, the company said in a message to RBC.

According to experts, visitors to such sites are offered to choose a box with a prize, and then congratulate them on winning a smartphone and promise to deliver it in a few days. “In order to receive a prize, you need to send information about the draw to several friends via WhatsApp. As a result of “registration completion”, the victim is redirected to various potentially malicious resources,” the scheme was described in BI.ZONE.

Experts noted that the scheme with this template was discovered a year ago. Evgeny Voloshin, DIRECTOR of the BI.ZONE expert services block, admits that the disguise of fraudulent sites as online stores is related to the upcoming lockdown.

The days from October 30 to November 7 were declared non-working days by decree of the President of RUSSIA due to the worsening situation with the spread of CORONAVIRUS. At the same time, the regions can introduce the regime of non-working days earlier (in Moscow, for example, it will begin on October 28) and extend it after the specified period. Restrictions have been tightened in many regions.