Caution: the vulnerability of Sberbank terminals can deprive you of all the money
News Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Over the past few weeks on the Internet Sberbank frequent customer complaints reporting the theft of funds through information and payment terminals. Disappearing with the amount of the account at all different, but the scam scheme in all cases the same, reports "B."
Everything happens as follows: somebody unknown, standing at the terminal in front of you begins to perform some operation, but does not insert his card. As soon as he leaves, you come to the terminal and see a standard "insert the card and enter the PIN."
As soon as you do, from your account will be debited immediately the money at the request of the previous person: the last is simply not complete the operation on transfer or any payment. So, you are agreed to write-off their funds.
It operates such a scheme only if between the actions of a rogue and commissioning of your data was not more than 90 seconds. That's how much time Sberbank terminals allow for the completion of the operation.
Perhaps because of the frequent complaints scenario terminal and the duration of the timeout to be changed soon. However, while all of the Savings Bank customers are advised to carefully study the information on the screen of the terminal before using it.
It is also worth paying attention to the actions of those individuals that use the terminal in front of you. In particular, you need to be vigilant in places with constant bursts where fraudsters often and guns.
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