Central Bank: The number of fraudulent attacks on clients of Russian banks is growing

The number of fraudulent attacks on clients of Russian banks has increased over the past year, but their success rate has decreased.

Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina announced this today in the Russian State Duma, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.

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“We see that the number of attacks, unfortunately, continues to increase, but the number of successful attacks is still decreasing. Great responsibility, in our opinion, should be on banks, on how they build their anti-fraud procedures internally. Because now only people are dealing with the consequences of such social engineering,” Nabiullina said.

According to her, banks have already introduced a system for quickly blocking fraudulent numbers and sites. In addition, Nabiullina asked the State Duma to adopt a law on compensation for victims of fraud as a priority.

“We believe that the bank should compensate a person for losses if he made a transfer to an account that is known from information exchange with the Central Bank (we maintain a special database) that this account belongs to fraudsters. If the bank transferred money there, then it is obliged to pay the person the money for this transfer,” Nabiullina said.

Earlier, Sberbank President German Gref told the Federation Council that his clients’ safety is monitored by artificial intelligence, which manages to overcome this type of fraud in 99,6% of cases.

_{Observers noted that massive banking fraud is carried out from the territory of Ukraine and is one of the tools to destabilize the situation in Russia (along with telephone terrorism through false mining).}

Telephone scammers were identified, in particular, by their characteristic southern Russian accent.

_{Moreover, since telephone saboteurs are controlled by Ukrainian intelligence services, they can easily be exposed by interrupting the conversation and asking, " Whose Crimea is it? " Typically, the callers fail to recognize the peninsula as Russian and begin to respond with expletives.}

Recently, scammers from Ukraine have been acting posing as employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At the same time, they have at their disposal personal data of Russian citizens, possibly illegally acquired from hacked Russian databases.