The Central Bank spoke about fraud under the guise of helping to buy foreign shares

Fraudsters began to contact investors on behalf of a brokerage company, said Valery Lyakh, director of the Department for Combating Unfair Practices of the Central Bank (CB). He said that the attackers offer to buy and transfer cryptocurrency to the broker’s account for trading foreign shares.

“This kind of offer is not a new trick, but a new design of the old scheme with crediting money to someone else’s credit card number. The transfer of a crypt to someone else’s wallet with the promise of fabulous wealth is an old melody with new words, ”said RBC Investments Mr Lach.

According to him, crypto-currency schemes are popular among scammers, as it is “an established way to cover their tracks.” According to the Central Bank, in 2022, almost a thousand such companies with signs of pyramids accepted payments in cryptocurrencies, which is about 48% of the total number of financial pyramids.

Member of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank Mikhail Mamuta last week informedthat the regulator considers it necessary to strengthen the responsibility for illegal investment advice coming from bloggers and Telegram channels. According to him, the ban on attracting money from individuals to companies not supervised by the Central Bank will also help protect the funds of Russians.

Details – in the material “Kommersant FM” “Advice is asked to be kept to yourself”.

Laura Keffer