View of Lviv, Ukraine. File photoMOSCOW, April 18Fraudulent call centers are curtailing their activities in their «capital» Dnipro (former Dnepropetrovsk), the recruitment of «employees» is now in Lviv, Zaporozhye, Odessa and Baku, the scale of which can be explained by the close ties of the attackers with the special services of Ukraine, the deputy chairman of the board said in an interview with RIA Novosti Sberbank Stanislav Kuznetsov. Last fall, he said that the Ukrainian Dnipro can be called the «capital» of telephone fraud — at the end of 2020 there were up to a thousand call centers of intruders. «Specialists have long noted that most fraudulent calls are made from the territory of Ukraine. Indeed , for several years the «capital» of this business was the city of Dnipro. This is a huge industry, the scale of which can be explained by its close ties not only with organized crime, but also with the special services of Ukraine. According to a number of experts, against the backdrop of the development of a special operation, the patrons of this business decided to curtail him in the Dnieper and transfer to the territory of other cities of Ukraine,” says the deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank. Such a “relocation” explains the temporary decline in telephone fraud against citizens of the Russian Federation, Kuznetsov believes. Earlier on Monday, he said that with the start of Russia's special operation in Ukraine, the scammers stopped calling Russians for some time, but since March 20 they have become active again, although on a smaller scale — the number of such calls per day has fallen by 5.5 times. On the Internet, job advertisements are openly recorded in fraudulent call centers in cities such as Lviv, Zaporozhye, Odessa, Baku, etc. Hostels are provided for non-residents. In the advertisements, these call centers describe the nature of their activities as «working with an aggressor country» Recruits are being convinced that «there are no consequences from the legislation and there cannot be,» Kuznetsov said. $400–500 plus interest.
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