Scammers began sending Russian children and teenagers videos of people in Ukrainian military uniforms threatening missile attacks. Students receive such videos after they send their geolocation to a new friend in messenger. This was reported by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to department representatives, first the victim is asked to send the coordinates of a certain location in the city or their current location to the dating chatbot. The interlocutors explained this by saying that they wanted to check how far apart they were.
As soon as the teenager sent these coordinates, he immediately received a video file. In the video, a man wearing a Ukrainian uniform claims that they will launch a missile or drone attack based on the geotag sent. Then people posing as employees of Russian special services will participate.
They called the student and threatened him with criminal prosecution for sending the geolocation, claiming that this was support for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in preparing a terrorist attack. After that, scammers operating according to the standard scheme of call centers in Ukraine began to demand money.
Additionally, a new scam scheme is spreading in Russia, in which users receive notifications about winning a gadget, a certificate for large sums of money or travel packages.
