Phishing Fraud Schemes

Phishing is a type of Internet fraud aimed at stealing user identification data. This includes theft of passwords, credit card numbers, bank accounts and other confidential information. Viruses are activated when an attachment is opened or a link is clicked in a phishing email. Do not forget that some of the email clients support scripts, which makes infection possible immediately after the user has opened a suspicious email. The danger of phishing links and viral emails is that they are extremely difficult to distinguish from real ones, but still there are typical phishing schemes, knowledge of which can save you from financial losses. The article analyzes statistical data regarding the dynamics of the development of phishing schemes in the Russian Federation. Social and economic factors that differentiate potential victims of fraudsters have also been identified, global statistics on phishing attacks for 2022-2024 have been reflected, and statistics on attacks through phishing sites and email campaigns have been predicted for 2025 using an exponential smoothing algorithm.