At the same time, over the past few years we have seen a strong. Increase in the number of fraudulent schemes that the Central Bank has identifi. What do you attribute this to?
Fraudulent schemes. In 2022, the Bank of Russia
identifi almost two thousand pyramids (2.3 times is it expensive to advertise more than in 2021), 1.2 thousand illegal professional market participants (an increase of 1.4 times) and 1.7 thousand “black critors” (an increase of 1.8 times). In total, almost five thousand companies and projects with signs of illegal activity were identifi, and a year earlier – about 2.7 thousand. On the one hand, such a surge is the flip side of the rapid development of technology. Almost 96% of the identifi financial pyramids, 97% of illegal professional participants, and even 43% of illegal critors also mov online operat on the Internet. You can quickly and cheaply create a fraudulent project online. In addition, society has actually switch to a model of social behavior when it is normal for the economically active population not to know who is on the other side of the screen. That is, these people do not check the counterparty, and illegals confidently take advantage of this.
The same time, our statistics show the number
of identifi cases or projects, and not companies as such. We have learn to find illegal schemes quite quickly, publish information about them on the Central Bank website, pass different formats are us them on to law enforcement agencies, and block information about their online resources. This is all a joint effort – ours, the ao lists Prosecutor General’s Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rosfinmonitoring. But if the scammers understand that they have been “expos”, they abandon the project and immiately open a new one. Often – several small parallel projects, with different sites, channels, chats.