News Internet scammers have deceived Russians into stealing about 150 billion rubles in 2020


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58% of users deceived by phone scammers independently transferred money.


Telephone and Internet scammers in 2020 earned about 150 billion rubles from Russian citizens, 66 billion rubles of which fall on the income of attackers posing as Bank employees. According to analysts of BrandMonitor, most of the money from Russians was lured out during conversations with fake employees of medical companies — more than 50 thousand rubles per person.

According to the results of the analysis of VTsIOM data, criminals earned 66 billion rubles by deceiving citizens, posing as representatives of financial organizations, 46.5 billion rubles on fictitious medical services, and 18.6 billion rubles through phishing sites and fake online stores.

In the first half of 2020 alone, the Bank of Russia blocked more than 9.7 thousand fraudulent phone numbers, which is four times the number of fraudulent calls in 2019.

According to researchers from the company IDF Eurasia, 58% of users deceived by phone scammers independently transferred money. Amounts up to 5 thousand rubles were lost by 16% of respondents, 5-10 thousand rubles — 24%, 10-15 thousand rubles — 42%, and amounts over 15 thousand rubles — 18%. It is noteworthy that only 5% of users who became victims of scams applied to law enforcement agencies.

According to the study, 22% of Russians, although faced with telephone fraud, but did not transfer money to criminals, but 16% trusted the scammers with their money. Men were more likely than women to be victims of fraud - 56% and 44%, respectively.

42% of respondents from among the victims of fraudsters transferred personal data to criminals, including information about a Bank card, and codes from SMS messages. Amounts up to 5 thousand rubles in the framework of such a criminal scheme lost 10%, 5-10 thousand rubles-16%, 10-15 thousand rubles-22%, amounts over 15 thousand rubles-52%.
 
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