Fraud schemes have become very popular in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began.
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During the full-scale war, 11% of Ukrainians became victims of scammers. Most often, citizens are deceived when buying or selling goods on the Internet. This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) together with the Opendatabot company.
In total, more than 112.9 thousand users were surveyed. Cyber fraudsters took into account that citizens were in a difficult situation, and they took advantage of the fact that there was a war going on. The attackers pretended to be banks or promised financial assistance from the state, international and charitable organizations.
It turned out that most often Ukrainians fell for scammers when buying or selling goods on the Internet – 52.7%. The second most popular scam is phishing links – 18.6%. Third and fourth places were taken by hacking accounts on social networks (12%) and extorting information by phone (10.2%).
It also turned out that most often criminals deceive young people aged 18-24 years (14% of respondents) and over 65 years old (11.5%).
The survey results indicate that a quarter of respondents lost more than 5 thousand UAH from the actions of scammers, and almost a third lost about 500 UAH.
Let us remind you that in October the National Police exposed scammers from the Zhytomyr region who were selling non-existent cars for the Armed Forces. Law enforcement officials have already identified 22 people who transferred funds to the scammers.
Source: Racurs
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