The damage caused to the Russians caused by attacks using their children, according to the results of the first half of the year, could exceed 600 million rubles. In this regard is Lente.ru, said by F6 experts, opening up the dangerous plans of scammers.
According to F6, in the first six months of 2025, about 3,500 incidents occurred, in which scammers actually manage children's actions to approach their parents' remote banking services.
F6 stipulates that most criminal attacks are targeted at children from 10 to 14 years old, which is facilitated by adolescents' free access to mobile devices and computers, and not enough their digital literacy level. At the same time, attackers can use some scenarios, time changes from a few days to several months.
Typically, many different online games, such as Roblox, Minecraft or Standoff 2, helped criminals from the victim. Scammers can create a fake account of bloggers and streamers in it, as well as provide players to participate in the draw or win internal money. Older children, as noted in F6, is attacked by fake diagrams. In this case, criminals can be represented by school staff, authorities, mobile operators, etc.
At the same time, in the early stages of the attack, the crime asked the child to name the code from SMS, then they imitate the hacking of the personal account of the state portal and threaten that the victim's parents are facing allegations of supporting terrorism. When the last teenager was threatened, he began to follow the guidelines of the scammers – reports on parents' applications installed on devices, trying to enter them and transfer money to attackers.
Criminals are increasingly threatening children and forcing them to access their parents' phone numbers without their consent, at night. They use threatening techniques like adults. Unfortunately, these techniques affect both techniques, Alexander Radchenko, head of the fraudulent protection of fraudulent fraud.
To protect against such situations, F6 is recommended from an early age to imbue for children's digital hygiene skills. In addition, it is necessary to control parents on their own and on children's devices, as well as explain that the requirement of taking mother or father can only come from bad people.