Banks are allowed to be kept informed about the change of customers SIM-cards

At the recently held a closed meeting of representatives of banks, the Ministry of Communications and the Central Bank, it was decided to strengthen protection of customers against fraud by requesting mobile operators information about changing the subscribers SIM-cards.

It will fight with scammers who change customers' SIM-card to gain access to their online accounts.

Access to internet banking criminals mined with the help of malicious software, but even placing a login and password, can not log in to your account - it takes to enter the code to send to the client in the form of SMS. Therefore fraudsters using false powers of attorney draw up the cabin communication copy foreign SIM-cards.

The meeting came to the conclusion that the mechanism of request from the bank to the company's mobile communication about changing SIM-card subscriber - an effective way to deal with this type of fraud, but for that operators will have to make a number of technical improvements.

In addition, it is necessary to form an appropriate legal basis.