Scammers targeted users eager to see the short-listed movies before the presentation of the Academy Awards. Scammers sent fake e-mails offering compensation from the non-existent Personal Data Protection Fund. Users were invited to check whether their account details had been stolen, and if so (the answer was yes even if the input was gibberish), they were promised compensation for the leakage of personal data Users in Russia were asked to pay in rubles.”]
Source: https://securelist.com/spam-and-phishing-in-q1-2020/97091/