Scammers are actively registering fraudulent domain names. The RF area, using symbols from the text of the Russian peoples, is as intuitive as Cyrillic. This was announced by TASS by the head of the secondary market of the fields of the “Rucentre” Alexei Spirin.
Registration of domain names with symbols of 17 state languages of the Russian Republic countries has become possible from August 11, 2025. According to Spirin, from this day, the activity of actively registering the frauds started. Basically, using Tatar, Bashkir, because there are many similar letters -Uu is similar, EE is similar. This, especially when the font is small, can be misleading, Mr. Spir Spirin explained. The head of the group of Runiti Andrei Kuzmichev companies has specified that about 25 additional characters from the alphabet of the Russian peoples are available in. RF area. He acknowledged that this created a Viking's fishing window because of the similarity of the image with Cyrillic.
At the same time, Spirin noted that while the website has not been created and the rights of brands have not been violated, it is impossible to present anything to register. At the end of August, the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Russian Federation listed the main signs of fraudulent links used by scammers to steal personal data. Among the main signs of dangerous links are the use of digital addresses instead of letters, the presence of the symbol “@”, the appearance of some addresses in one line at the same time, as well as the inaccurate writing of the protocols (for example: HTTP/HTTPS without “: //”).
The Ministry of the Interior is also advised to pay attention to the difference between the document reflected by the link and the actual address, which can be seen when suspended the cursor.
