The Central Bank is asked to oblige banks to compensate citizens for losses from fraudsters
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The Central Bank is being asked to oblige banks to compensate citizens for losses from fraudsters. The appeal with such a request was sent to the head of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina by the head of the faction "Fair Russia - For Truth" Sergei Mironov. The document was familiarized with "Izvestia".
"From July 25, 2024 the provisions of the law "On the national payment system" came into force, according to which the bank of the sender of funds must return the full amount of stolen funds within 30 days after receiving the relevant application from the client - an individual in the following cases: if the bank allowed the transfer of funds to a fraudulent account, which is in a special database of the Bank of Russia; if the credit institution did not send a citizen a notice of the transfer without the consent of the client; if the bank card was lost or
It notes, according to the statistics of the Bank of Russia in the first quarter of 2024 fraudsters managed to steal from citizens 4.3 billion rubles, the amount of losses of Russians by 8% exceeded the average rate of theft in 2023.
"This information shows the need to introduce additional measures to protect and support citizens affected by the actions of fraudsters," the appeal notes.
"With the help of special technologies, they take people out of balance. In fact, "hack" their consciousness. Not only depositors and bank card holders with low financial literacy suffer from this, but also citizens who are aware of the use of these cunning techniques. The problem is acute, and I believe that the state must take urgent measures to protect citizens," Sergei Mironov explained to "Izvestia" the need for new measures.
Earlier, on December 19 last year, in the coordination center of domains .RU/.RF told "Izvestia" that at the end of 2024 attacks of fraudsters on users of messenger Telegram increased 19 times. In November-December, their number amounted to more than a thousand, while in the same period of 2023, only 54 cases were recorded. Attackers use a variety of schemes to hack into users' accounts: fake social payments for holidays, New Year sales, cheap tickets to Christmas trees, concerts and performances.
