Dmitry Prosolenko reported that the most common type of fraud is remote

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Yesterday, May 23, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the city of Moscow (GU MVD) held a press conference on the topic of "Detection and suppression of crimes using IT technologies." The head of the department for combating the illegal use of IT technologies of the GU MVD of Russia for the city of Moscow, Dmitry Prosolenko, noted that the methods used by fraudsters are primitive, but effective. "If we tell people a few rules on how to avoid fraud, then we will see that this crime will disappear, which we really hope for. The most important task is prevention among our population," he said.

"Since the beginning of 2024, the kazakhstan whatsapp number database Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has registered 21,239 crimes committed using IT technologies, which is 7.4% more than in the same period in 2023. The number of preliminarily investigated crimes of this category has increased by 16.5%. At the same time, police officers have identified 20% more people who committed these crimes," the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said in a statement.

"This is fraud that uses mobile communications and a telephone. This is the simplest, when fraudsters call and under various pretexts try to gain access to your mobile bank, Internet bank, to data on "Gosuslugi". Such crimes account for about 40% of all frauds."

Vasily Popovich, Deputy Head of the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow, said that every third citizen's request received by the economic security department is related to remote investment - crowdfunding: "This is a form of investment in which investors, usually individuals, through various fraudulent investment platforms, offer to invest money at a high interest rate with monthly payments in high-yield projects. Such platforms are gaining increasing popularity both in Russia and abroad."

Deputy Head of the Drug Control Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow Evgeny Borodikhin reported that by 2024, 99% of drug distribution will occur via the Internet. He also noted that four years ago, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs officially created a unit to combat IT crime in the sphere of illegal drug trafficking. "Over the past three months, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has opened 3,360 criminal cases on illegal drug trafficking against 1,746 individuals. Of these, crimes in 1,317 criminal cases against 1,098 individuals were committed using IT technologies. This is what has been proven. Also, since the beginning of 2024, we have identified 2,092 Internet sites through which criminal groups distributed and promoted drugs. We sent this information to the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) and were able to block access to 1,760 resources. Among other things, the department seized 406 kg of drugs from illegal circulation," said Evgeny Borodikhin.

When asked by a ComNews correspondent why Roskomnadzor has not closed all 2,092 sites, Vladimir Vasenin replied that closing any resource is a process: "A resource is not closed in one day. There is a scheme when this is done very quickly, and there is a scheme when we can spend several days on this in a planned mode. That is why we are giving you the figures that actually exist, because writing any document and launching it into the process of closing a resource takes some time."

"We cannot fail to note the work of the Department for Combating the Illegal Use of IT Technologies (UBK) of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the City of Moscow, created in 2023. The UBK of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the City of Moscow, together with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of Russia for the City of Moscow, detained a citizen who, through telephone communication, misled the victim and took possession of his money in the amount of 654 thousand rubles," the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said in a statement.

Leading engineer of the software developer CorpSoft24 Mikhail Sergeev believes that such a unit is very necessary, since its absence provokes criminals to commit new crimes and increases their number. "But its effectiveness at the moment will be low, because most of these crimes are committed from unfriendly countries, and even if the identity and location of the criminal is established, extradition will be impossible: he will simply not be extradited, he will continue to commit crimes on the territory of the Russian Federation, while not in Russia, therefore, in fact, the department can only work on the territory of the Russian Federation and catch only local criminals."