The Russian regulator has warned that financial and cryptocurrency scammers are increasingly running real offices of “investment firms”, which is a “worrying sign”.
The Central Bank emphasized that so far the percentage of such fraudulent firms is not too large and most of them are still located on the Internet. However, the very trend of moving offline is “an extremely worrying sign.” They are lured to the office under the pretext of transferring credentials to enter the sites, or they offer to buy cryptocurrencies. Of course, with personal contact, the victim is much easier to persuade to “invest” than with a phone call or correspondence.
“Illegals organize offices to provide their clients with more opportunities to replenish trading accounts or deposit funds into a “cryptocurrency project”, regardless of internal or external. Potential victims are offered to replenish their account in cash or make an independent exchange of funds on various cryptocurrency exchanges, most often recommended by illegal immigrants,” the press service of the regulator explained.
At the same time, the total number of cryptocurrency fraudulent schemes continues to grow. If last year 460 cryptocurrency pyramids were recorded, then in the first half of 2022 their number exceeded 530. Of the total number of 954 fraudulent schemes in the first half of 2022, 56% raise money in crypto assets.
Source: Bits
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