The Central Bank announced its intention to strengthen the fight against droppers and add them to the database.

The leadership of the Central Bank of Russia intends to strengthen control over "second-level" fraudsters, who are not just an intermediary for withdrawing funds from bank customers, but those who directly receive stolen money. This was announced to RBC on April 2 by Vadim Uvarov, director of the Central Bank's Information Security department.

It is noted that the higher-ranking "fraudsters-drops" are themselves bank clients, and have their own cards, where victims of fraud transfer their savings under the influence of fraudulent intermediaries. Thus, the stolen money goes from there in favor of the shadow business.

According to Uvarov, according to Federal Law No. 369-FZ "On the National Payment System", it has the right to block transactions carried out on cards and enter their details into its database.

"If we talk about 369-FZ, then the cooling-off period has started, about 300 thousand transfers are "cooled" every month, and our cards are blocked. <...> Currently, we plan to include "second-level" drops in our database after the operation is completed. We have worked out this topic in the SBP channel, and now we will look at the same story on the maps, so that the "second—level" drops do not live very well and pleasantly," said the specialist at the Antifrodum 2025 conference.

The Central Bank and Rosfinmonitoring also plan to launch a platform for the exchange of information about individual clients who are suspected of droppage. In addition, the issue of granting banks the right to refuse service to persons from the database is under discussion.

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On April 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law aimed at protecting citizens from telephone and Internet scams. In particular, banks are now required to extend anti-fraud measures not only to online transfers, but also to ATM transactions. He also instructed the Russian government, together with the State Duma, to speed up the adoption of laws prohibiting the conclusion of banking contracts with minors without the consent of guardians. Prior to that, on March 5, Putin said that telephone and Internet fraud in Russia had acquired unacceptable proportions.

In December 2024, the Central Bank reported that banks had protected customers from 16.1 million online fraud attacks in the third quarter of 2024, preventing them from stealing 4.9 trillion rubles. At the same time, the regulator clarified that the fraudsters managed to steal 9.3 billion rubles in July – September.