“Usually a user can register in a game economic project with the possibility of withdrawing funds, buys a certain character or, for example, virtual real estate, which should generate income.
But, in order to receive a reward or a win, you need to bring new players into the project - as a rule, acquaintances or relatives, ”RBC quotes Lyakha.
In the absence of new players, the project stops, the expert explained.
“And the money cannot be withdrawn, they had already been withdrawn for you by that time,” he explained.
The Central Bank also expressed concern about the involvement of children and adolescents in new types of financial pyramids.
“Here, both the younger generation and children may suffer,” Lyakh warned.
According to him, such projects make up 8% of the total number of financial pyramids identified in the third quarter of 2021.
Earlier, cybersecurity expert Kutsenko spoke about the tricks of fraudsters on the network.
Also, as reported by the portal "Yuga.ru", in the Krasnodar Territory, the organizer of a large financial pyramid will appear before the court.
According to the investigation, the 43-year-old resident of Kazan was in charge of two credit and consumer cooperatives.
Under the pretext of paying high interest rates, he stole funds from 674 shareholders from the Krasnodar Territory, Kaluga, Saratov, Penza, Yaroslavl, Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara Regions, Stavropol Territory and Sevastopol.