Two years ago, on the black market of banking “plastic” for drops, classic Sberbank cards were offered for 9 thousand rubles. By November 2022, prices have changed significantly: classic cards are offered for 12,000 rubles, gold cards from 40,000 rubles, and premium cards cost up to 100,000 rubles. This is stated in the Sberbank study on the system for withdrawing money stolen from the Russians, with which Izvestia got acquainted.
The study says that drop cards from other banks are cheaper. So, for example, in one of the applications on the black market it is reported that the Sberbank card is sold for 30 thousand rubles, Raiffeisenbank for 22 thousand rubles, Uralsib and OTP Bank for 18 thousand rubles.
The cost difference is explained by the measures taken by Sberbank to reduce the number of falls among its clients, the document says.
According to a representative of the bank, thanks to the anti-fraud mechanism and systematic work to combat droppers, despite its scale, Sberbank is not the leader among Russian credit organizations in terms of the number of cards used by attackers.
Card prices will continue to rise in 2023. This is due to successful countermeasures against such scammers, said Alexei Pleshkov, deputy head of Gazprombank’s information security department.
RTM Group manager Evgeny Tsarev said that drop cards have been rising in price for more than a year, their prices are growing by an average of 30% per year. He added that a couple of years ago such cards were sold for 500 rubles, and in bulk even cheaper.
Author:
karina pardaeva
Source: RB
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