The OP talked about cases of cheating children in Roblox

Evgeny Masharov, a member of the commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation for the public examination of draft laws and other regulations, spoke on December 15 about cases of cheating children on the Roblox Internet service.

"In February 2025 <...> we started receiving citizens affected by the actions of telephone and remote fraudsters. <...> We have seven such examples, when parents came to seek legal assistance and advice. <...> Their minor children have become, in this case, we can use the term "victims" within the framework of the Roblox game," he said during a round table dedicated to discussing the increase in crimes against children using online gaming services and effective counteraction measures.

According to Masharov, the main group of victims are children from 12 to 16 years old. Teenagers, wanting to improve their character's skills in the game for money, came into contact with intruders through the application's virtual chat. In some cases, minors signed loan agreements in the names of their parents using their mobile devices.

"It ends, as always, sadly, when parents find out that they have actually spent money on their card, or they have issued loans or loan agreements," he added.

The member of the OP commission is convinced that in this case there was effective cooperation between the activities of legislative and executive authorities.

"As for the Roblox game and the blocking carried out by Roskomnadzor, it was done very timely," he concluded.

Stop the game: the Roblox platform was blocked in Russia

The reason was the banned propaganda

On December 3, Roskomnadzor restricted access to Roblox due to the fact that materials with propaganda and justification of extremist and terrorist activities, calls for violence, as well as LGBT-themed propaganda were massively and repeatedly distributed in the game's chat rooms (the LGBT movement is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation). It was noted that the service also had a large number of inappropriate content that could have a negative impact on the spiritual and moral development of children.

On December 4, Sergei Boyarsky, head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, called Roskomnadzor's decision to block Roblox absolutely correct and timely. According to him, the game itself did not pose a threat, but fraud cases became more frequent in its chats, when attackers asked children to take pictures of their parents' bank cards and stole funds.

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