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The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs regularly publishes recommendations on the protection of personal data in the face of growing cyber fraud and social engineering.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs warns that scans and photographs of personal documents such as passports, INN and SNILS cannot be given to strangers.
You should not disclose codes from SMS or push notifications to strangers, or publish residential addresses, real-time locations, travel routes and phone numbers of relatives in open profiles on social networks and instant messengers.
MOSCOW, October 1 - RIA Novosti. The residential addresses and telephone numbers of loved ones, as well as scans and photographs of documents, for example, passports or SNILS, cannot be disclosed or transferred to strangers, according to the materials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which RIA Novosti reviewed.
Russians are not allowed to give scans and photographs of documents - passports, INN and SNILS - to strangers, as well as give them codes from SMS or push notifications.
In addition, you should not publish residential addresses, real-time locations, travel routes and phone numbers of relatives in open profiles on social networks and instant messengers.

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