Miratorg warned of a new tender fraud scheme

The fraudulent scheme, which results in the loss of funds by small and medium-sized companies, was described in the Miratorg press service. They noted that they have repeatedly encountered situations where fraudsters use their brand name.

Fraudsters use a document under the abbreviation STO FSS.004.0.07-2021, which supposedly confirms the use of the service of a third-party certified organization to confirm the good faith of the counterparty.

“This ‘certificate’ costs less than the paper it is printed on,” Miratorg said. For example, at Miratorg itself, this document is not required to participate in tenders.

The company said that scammers offer to participate in the tender, then report that you have become their winner. Then they offer to pay for a certain service, the essence of which is an audit of the company, which confirms the decency of the business.

“This document will have many references and mentions on the Internet. Don’t be embarrassed by your volume, they all lead to scammers,” Miratorg explained.

The offers offered by scammers do not actually exist. At the same time, they look very believable and difficult to distinguish from the real thing, the company emphasized.

“This is an industrial-scale fraud scheme to take money from small and medium-sized businesses,” the company emphasized.

Miratorg advised to pay close attention to the email address from which the offer came: large companies send requests only from corporate mail, the domain of which can be found on their official websites.