He stated this during the conference “Fighting number spoofing.
Reality and Perspective.
“We now have a very large flow to messengers, but we are also fighting them there, there are also technologies that can be used to reduce the amount of fraud on the same messengers,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
According to him, today scammers have practically stopped calling from ABC format numbers, with the code 495, 499 and other regional numbers.
“They are, but from 95% they have dropped to 2-3%,” Bengin added.
Earlier, the Russian Interior Ministry said that the record amount stolen by telephone scammers amounted to 500 million rubles.