Fraudsters call such people droppers. They believe that renting out their cards is safe and that it is a common practice that allows them to earn easy and legal money. Of course, nothing good can come of this, because this is how attackers gain access to usernames and passwords in banking applications.
But rental cards are used not to steal money from naive citizens, but from other people: victims are persuaded to transfer money directly to the accounts of the rented cards, shifting the responsibility to the “lessor”.
The VTB press service noted that previously the scammers bought cards from Russians and got rid of them after stealing the money, but now they rent them out in order to cover their tracks and make one of the victims of the scheme an accomplice to the crime.
“They convince potential losers that bank card transfer and access to banking services are safe, promising easy and legal earnings. It is much easier to persuade a conscientious user not to sell, but to transfer his card for a while. “People willingly believe that such a transfer is completely safe,” the VTB press service said, citing Dmitry Revyakin, head of the VTB corporate interests protection department.
Source: Ferra
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