Krympress reports:
In the first half of 2025, the Bank of Russia revealed more than 4 thousand fraudulent and illegal projects. This is 20% more than the same period of 2024, the press service of the regulator said.
More than 4 thousand fraudulent and illegal projects were identified by the Bank of Russia in the first half of 2025. Compared to the same period last year, the number of identified financial pyramids and other illegal immigrants increased by 20%— noted in the regulator.
From the data of the Bank of Russia it follows that more than 88% of the identified financial pyramids and illegal brokers offered people investments in pseudo -investment schemes. The total number of pyramidal Internet projects in the first half of the year reached 2.3 thousand.
The number of pyramids has increased by 1.4 times last period last year. However, their life life has declined, and the Bank of Russia reveals such projects much fasterSaid Ilya Kochetkov, director of the Nebankovsky lending department of the Central Bank.
In addition, the bank experts revealed almost 1.4 thousand pseudo -red.
Often fraudsters create several related projects under different brands to circumvent sites blocking. In January-June, on the initiative of the Bank of Russia, 11 thousand Internet resources belonging to illegal immigrants were blocked. The structure of half of these sites was built on templates— they say in the Bank of Russia.
Based on materials from the Bank of Russia, in relation to the organizers of illegal projects in the first half of the year, more than 200 administrative cases were instituted for illegal professional activities to provide consumer loans and more than 300 other response measures were taken, the press service noted.
Pseudo-investment schemes is one of the most common types of online can I, in which attackers under the guise of investment companies, brokers, startups or financial platforms offer citizens to invest money allegedly in profitable and reliable projects, — explains the deputy of the State Duma, a member of the Information Policy Committee, the federal coordinator of the Digital Russia party project Anton Nemkin. — In fact, such structures do not conduct real investment activities: the money of victims is immediately displayed to the accounts of attackers or are used in classical “pyramidal” logic, when payments to the old participants are made due to new receipts.
The main signs of such schemes are the promises of high profitability without risk, intrusive advertising with “successful stories” and fake reviews, the organization of a license, as well as an emphasis on “urgency”, says the deputy.
Often scammers use complex or foreign names to give the project “solidity”, and also provide fake documents allegedly confirming the registration of the company abroad— he notes.
The blocking of such sites remains an important protection mechanism, despite the ability of scammers to quickly launch new resources, says Nemkin.
Each blocking reduces the “life” of the fraudulent platform, interrupts the active funnel of attracting new victims, interferes with the promotion of the resource in search engines and instant messengers— he says.
You can meet pseudo -investment schemes in instant messengers and social networks.
But phishing pages are also actively used that simulate genuine investment platforms, banks or state resources. Another channel is “financial consultants” who call on the phone, introducing themselves as employees of large companies and convincing a potential victim to pass “registration” and make a first fee— warns the deputy.
The main protection against such schemes is critical thinking, Nemkin emphasizes.
If the platform is unknown, does not have a transparent story, legal address and license, and its representatives insist on the speed of decision -making — this is almost certainly scammers— he notes.
Source: press service of the State Duma deputy Anton Nemkina
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