Scammers Buy Russians' Biometrics Under the Guise of AI Testing

Criminals are actively buying biometric data from Russian citizens, disguising their actions as artificial intelligence testing. For providing a standard selfie, scammers offer a reward of about $10.

Under the guise of harmless neural network research, attackers look for potential victims in Russian-speaking chats. Promising to use images solely for training face recognition systems, they gain access to sensitive information.

In practice, the obtained biometric data can be used to create cryptocurrency wallets and conduct suspicious financial transactions. This poses serious risks to users' financial security who decide to take on such 'work'.