tion of information on the website. By the way, more and more the analytical work resulted in 41 strategic recommendations people contact the Bank of Russia not with complaints about damage from fraudsters, damage was caused by fraudsters in total last year?
— We can only give expert assessments
information about damage is the prerogative of law enforcement agencies. Last year, according to our experts, losses from investments in financial pyramids amounted to about five to six billion rubles. This is, of course, a lot. But, for example, in 2021, losses in the Finiko pyramid alone amounted, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to over five billion rubles. Total losses from the activities of illegals and pyramids, according to our estimates, decreased by about 30-35% (compared to 2021 — ed.).
The reduction in losses is also due
The fact that we identify fraudulent projects at an early stage, before they have attracted many people. According to our data, there were no major cases last year. We do not allow media planning without choosing channels wisely fraudulent projects to “turn into steam locomotives while they are still teapots.” On average, it takes 5-5.5 days from the detection of an ao lists illegal to the publicabut in order to report suspicions regarding an illegal company. We aimed for this when we began to publish the list of identified illegals.