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The total income of cybercriminals reaches more than 75 million rubles per month.
Almost half of all fraudulent call centers are in prisons. The total income of cybercriminals reaches more than 75 million rubles per month.
“It is not just individual malefactors who call customers, but the employees of professional contact centers. 40-50% of them are in prisons. We record that there are fraudsters in almost every third institution of the correctional service in Russia, ”said Stanislav Kuznetsov, deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank, in an interview with Izvestia newspaper.
According to Kuznetsov, one call center, consisting of 50 "employees", can make about 20 thousand calls a week. The potential victim answers the phone half the time. 70% of people refuse to talk to scammers.
As for the fight against call centers in prisons, according to Kuznetsov, the State Duma in the first reading adopted a bill introducing a procedure for blocking cellular communications in prisons. It is assumed that the cellular operator will disconnect communication at the request of the head of the territorial body of the Federal Penitentiary Service.
The deputy chairman of the bank's board also noted that this year the number of requests from Sberbank customers regarding telephone fraud has doubled in comparison with 2019. The bank's employees recorded about 2.9 million customer requests for fraudulent attempts.
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Almost half of all fraudulent call centers are in prisons. The total income of cybercriminals reaches more than 75 million rubles per month.
“It is not just individual malefactors who call customers, but the employees of professional contact centers. 40-50% of them are in prisons. We record that there are fraudsters in almost every third institution of the correctional service in Russia, ”said Stanislav Kuznetsov, deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank, in an interview with Izvestia newspaper.
According to Kuznetsov, one call center, consisting of 50 "employees", can make about 20 thousand calls a week. The potential victim answers the phone half the time. 70% of people refuse to talk to scammers.
As for the fight against call centers in prisons, according to Kuznetsov, the State Duma in the first reading adopted a bill introducing a procedure for blocking cellular communications in prisons. It is assumed that the cellular operator will disconnect communication at the request of the head of the territorial body of the Federal Penitentiary Service.
The deputy chairman of the bank's board also noted that this year the number of requests from Sberbank customers regarding telephone fraud has doubled in comparison with 2019. The bank's employees recorded about 2.9 million customer requests for fraudulent attempts.
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