The number of subjects with illegal activity signs found by the Central Bank in 2024 increased almost 1.6 times a year for the year. Among them there are more than 5,000 financial pyramids, around 2,000 professional values of the illegal stock market and 1.5 thousand black creditors, said the regulator on its website.
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“The number of illegal immigrants increased mainly due to actively created pyramidal projects and unscrupulous investment offers. Pseudo investment schemes are one of the trends in recent years, ”said the Central Bank.
Many pyramids and pseudo -cross convince people to invest in cryptographic projects and an alleged purchase of shares, said analysts from the Bank of Russia. Most of the time, scammers attract customers through social networks and personal consultations in telegram channels. In addition, the schemes with cold calls began to return.
The Central Bank said that at this time more than 17 thousand Internet resources were blocked that the scams used and more than 650 administrative cases have been instituted. To combat attackers, a law was also adopted by which only companies supervised by the Central Bank can attract investments of the Russians.
Scammers often use the names of famous people or brands, launching phishing projects, especially popular in the field of cryptocurrencies, said the leading analyst for FAS.TT digital risk protection pseudo -inversions extends on behalf of Pavel Durov.
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