He explained that this part of the population is “solvent and often willing to spend money without thinking much about the consequences”, which, according to him, “is due in some way to excessive trust in technologies and excessive trust in the environment in which they are located” .

As Sychev notes, “attackers create an atmosphere of trust in social networks and take advantage of its fruits.”

He also said that on average fraudsters steal about 10-15 thousand rubles.

Earlier, the president of the Consortium “Inforus” Andrei Masalovich in an interview with Nation News told how to avoid becoming a victim of telephone scammers.