“This is undoubtedly an increase in crimes committed with the use of information and telecommunication technologies (ITT).

Their steady growth has been recorded in all constituent entities of Russia, ”the Izvestia newspaper quotes Lebedev.

It is noted that almost half of them are fraudulent.

According to Lebedev, there is a general tendency for the growth of such crimes.

On March 11, political scientist, President of the Eurasian Institute of Youth Initiatives Yuri Samonkin commented on the situation with cyber fraud.