PETERHOF, St. Petersburg. June 19 (Interfax) - Access to more than 14,000 fraudulent websites offering loans, deposit services and other financial products was blocked in January-March 2024, Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov said at the 6th meeting of the BRICS countries' prosecutors general on Wednesday.
"The functioning of 14,000 websites offering services by securities market pseudo-actors including loans, deposits and other financial products that misled consumers, was blocked" at prosecutors' requests in the first quarter of the year alone, Krasnov said.
IT crimes already account for more than one third of all crimes registered in Russia, he said.
"In order to prevent online fraud, which is the most widespread type of crime today, prosecutors have secured the installation and use by a majority of telecom operators, 700 out of 1,300, of anti-fraud systems to thwart attempts to use personal data for malign purposes and to block phone calls from fraudsters," he said.