For the first time in three years, fraud began to decrease in Russia

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the number of criminal cases under fraud articles increased by 2.1%and reached 32.9 thousand.

Joint efforts. This result was also possible, even thanks to the interaction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Central Bank, between which the exchange of data was established in real time, said Filippov. In addition, foreign traffic approval is virtually using the replacement of telephone numbers, and banks can suspend the transfer of customer accounts for two days, he said.

Megafon confirmed a decrease in the number of calls with the replacement of the number: in January 2024, the operator blocked 36 million calls of this type, and in January from 2025 to 5.8 million he pointed out that in January the number of calls fraudulent decreased in 8% compared to December 2024.

Differently. According to Filippov, the Central Bank and the Ministry of Internal Affairs “managed to quickly recover from drops, fraudulent accounts, 147 million rubles of unfair enrichment.” In addition, the amount of the money arrest for money received in the drop accounts increased by 13.5% per year, from 23.9 billion to 27.15 billion rubles, he added.

• On February 19, the president of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, said that the Central Bank would force banks to introduce a special clip in their requests. With their help, Russians can inform fraud. In his opinion, now this “is not such a simple procedure”, so only one third of the victims are contacted by the competent authorities.