“MTS Defender”: the number of fraudulent attacks per Russian increased by 30%

MTS has recorded an increase in the activity of telephone scammers in Russia.

According to the Defender service, from January to September 2025, there were an average of 35 unwanted calls per call. This is 30% more than a year earlier.

In just 9 months, Defender blocked 2.5 billion suspicious callswhich is 10% higher than the 2024 figure. Particularly active attackers began to use mass calling technologies. The system recorded 16.8 million such numbers: almost 2 times more than a year ago.

The largest number of fraudulent calls are traditionally found in large cities.

1. Moscow: 16.8% of all attacks
2. Krasnodar: 7%
3. St. Petersburg: 6.3%
4. Novosibirsk: 3.5%
5. Ufa: 3.2%

However, in terms of one resident, small towns are most often attacked. Thus, in Tver it was recorded 24,526 calls per personin Kurgan – 22,676. All of them were promptly classified as dangerous and blocked.

The analysis showed that fraudsters are actively adapting to economic realities. The most common schemes:

• investment proposals: 31% of all attacks
• calls from state utilities and government agencies: 31.5%

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Fraudsters regularly use new schemes and combine them, so we are actively developing not only our tracking methods. elements of user protection, for example, an anti-fraud platform, but we are also introducing new tools. We pay special attention to the development of the “Safe Call” function, which, with the help of a voice assistant, prevents the conversation directly during a telephone conversation.

On average, the number of uses of the service grows by 11% from month to month. At the same time, 57% of users immediately interrupt the call after receiving a notification from our AI, confirming that new types of behavior areas are emerging where technology becomes an active communication process.

— Director of the “Defender” product Andrey Biychuk

MTS experts note that the growing interest of Russians in external sources of income has become one of the reasons for its popularity. identification of fraudulent schemes.