Fake payouts

Scammers are promising government payments on behalf of the National Bank.

Under the guise of a government program, the website promises compensation “to support the population and promote import substitution.”

In reality, this is a scam designed to exploit people’s trust: individuals are asked to enter their IIN to supposedly verify their eligibility for a payment of 150,000 tenge, find out the “amount due,” and receive the money via card or bank account.

Scammers are once again using an old but still effective scheme: they promise citizens of Kazakhstan so-called government payments, compensation, and “financial aid” on behalf of the president, the government, or ministries.

Such websites typically cite large sums, emphasize urgency, cite non-existent decrees and resolutions, and then ask users to enter their IIN, card details, or pay a “commission,” “state fee,” or “transfer confirmation.”

Signs of a fake scheme:

• references to fictitious government programs;
• use of photos and names of officials to create a false sense of trust;
• promises of payments to almost everyone without clear justification;
• pressure through tight deadlines and “urgent orders”;
• requests for your TIN and subsequent attempts to extort money under the guise of fees.

Important to remember: genuine government payments are not processed through dubious websites, do not require money transfers for “unfreezing” or “activation,” and information should only be verified through official government resources.

Scammers have created a Telegram channel called “QMDB — Rasim Arnas” and are passing it off as an official resource of the DUMK.

The channel publishes fake posts about an allegedly approved “grant from the mufti” in the amount of 1 million tenge, and then demands payment of a “membership fee” of 35,000 tenge.

After the victim transfers the money to an individual’s bank card, they are sent a fake certificate, but no such grant exists.

Scammers are asking people to send them electricity bills, supposedly to credit them with bonuses.

Scammers have launched an ad purportedly from the Kazakhstan Citizens Support Fund, promoting a program of one-time social payments for government employees.

Scammers are stealing your credit card information by offering “VAT refunds from the government.”

Scammers are distributing fake payment apps under the guise of the Kaspi brand. This has been officially denied.

An old scam involving “fortune letters” promising a large, unexpected inheritance.