and financial pyramids changed recently and how to become a journalist? journalism specializations what is this connected with?
— In the first quarter of 2022, we identified 930 companies with signs of illegal activity: these are financial pyramids, illegal lenders and illegal professional participants in the securities market. These are the three areas in which we work, clearing the financial market of fraudsters.
If we dwell on financial pyramids, we recorded 403 such organizations in the first quarter. For comparison: this is almost half of the total number of pyramids identified throughout last year. But such a surge in detection began in the third or fourth quarter of 2021, and the statistics have not changed much relative to the end of the year.
— What methods are currently used by the scammers
who are behind the organization of financial pyramids?
— As always, financial pyramids actively use the current information agenda. For example, against the backdrop of financial uncertainties, calls to “save funds” in foreign jurisdictions are popular: invest in a foreign project, in foreign securities.
Now scammers are using sanctions
as a bait for them. For example, they specifically emphasize that they are talking about projects or accounts in countries that have not joined the sanctions. Restrictions related to international payments have become leader. story of a lie a trendy trick to convince people to transfer money to the personal account of an intermediary individual using a phone number. Schemes based on transfers agb directory using cryptocurrency or investments in supposedly digital instruments have also received another boost. More than 58% of pyramid schemes identified in the first quarter are related to cryptocurrency.