In 2023, the number of senior executives harmed by the actions of telephone fraudsters in Russia has increased significantly. Experts on the Vyberu.ru market came to these conclusions. socialbites.ca has a study.
Analysts analyzed data from a survey of 4,000 Russians aged 21 to 65. According to the results, the share of deceived senior managers reached 12% among all victims in 2023; This is 2.4 times more than in 2022 (5%).
Overall, 32% of respondents in 2023 admitted to transferring money to scammers. This 11 a.m. is higher than the same figure last year. In addition, the average amount of theft increased from 56 thousand rubles to 110 thousand rubles.
63 percent of victims stated that they transferred money after searches in the name of “prosecutor’s office” and “Bank of Russia” (87 percent of cases). At the same time, citizens’ trust in calls “from the bank” decreased by 3 times, from 34% to 9%.
The typical “portrait” of a fraud victim has also changed, according to the research. If earlier these were mostly retirees over 55 years old, in 2023 the victims were people aged 43-50 (74% of cases).
According to expert Anna Romanenko, to combat fraud it is necessary to increase the level of cyber literacy of the population, paying special attention to regions. In addition, he considers it necessary to tighten liability for internal fraud (a type of fraud, including unauthorized and illegal actions in the field of information technology – socialbites.ca’s note) in financial organizations.
Before this, cyber fraudsters stolen Russian bank customers will have a record amount in 2023.
Sber at the same time before blocked 15 thousand fraud cards.