| Developers: | Sberbank |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | June, 2020 |
| Branches: | Internet services |
2020: Start of service
On June 15, 2020 Sberbank announced start of the free service allowing Russians to check phone numbers and the websites for accessory to swindlers.
Service works at the website of Sberbank in the section "Your security". There it is possible to enter the phone number or the website which cause suspicions. Risk assessment of this or that detail and the corresponding recommendations is result of check.
Besides, any user, having filled a form, can transfer to bank the address of a fraudulent website or data on suspicious phone from which it was called by malefactors. Sberbank transfers these data to the interested expert organizations for holding actions for investigation and blocking of similar calls.[1]
According to the deputy chairman of Sberbank Stanislav Kuznetsov, the most popular schemes of fraud to the middle of June, 2020 are connected with use of social engineering and telephone deception, in particular, when malefactors on behalf of different services and the companies mislead the victims with the purpose to take control of their money.
 | It is the Russia's first resource of this sort available to any citizen without restrictions. Start of a resource will help to reveal quickly and to effectively counteract malefactors in scales of the whole country — Stanislav Kuznetsov said, commenting on start of service for verification of phone numbers and web resources on fraud. |  |
According to him, since the beginning of 2020 Sberbank registered more than 1.3 million complaints of clients to attempts of telephone fraud. Many schemes are connected with spread of a coronavirus of COVID-19. All of them were directed to stealing of money and personal data of Russians. In particular, offered people "compensations for damage from a virus": swindlers promised receiving social payments and financial support and at the same time collected information on maps and personal data.[2]
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