Banks prevented 16.1 million fraudulent transactions worth 4.9 trillion rubles in the 3rd quarter of 2024

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Banks prevented 16.1 million fraudulent transactions worth 4.9 trillion rubles in the 3rd quarter of 2024
December 9th. /MEDIA TALK/. In the third quarter of 2024, banks repelled 16.1 million attempts of unauthorized access to customer accounts. Such data is provided by the Central Bank. The funds of clients that were saved - 4.9 trillion rubles. This is three times more than in the same period of 2023.


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The amount of funds stolen from the accounts also increased significantly and amounted to 9.3 billion rubles. Recall that in the 2nd quarter, the amount of embezzlement amounted to 4.8 billion rubles. Online banking and transfers accounted for 40% of fraudulent write-offs. As noted in the Central Bank, previously the most common were losses on transactions using cards.

Also, from July to September, 12,100 suspicious sites and pages on social networks were blocked. 42,100 phone numbers of scammers were transferred to the telecom operators for blocking.
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