Banks blocked 30 thousand suspicious accounts on the first day of the new law on returning stolen funds to clients, said Vadim Uvarov , director of the information security department of the Central Bank of Russia . This was reported by RBC .
According to the Central Bank, systemically important Russian banks freeze more than 20 thousand transfers daily due to the receipt of information about suspicious activity.
In July, the head of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina , said that the regulator was discussing additional measures to protect older people from fraudsters.
Since July 25, 2024, Russian banks have begun to return money stolen by fraudsters to their clients under a new scheme. In some cases, banks will be obliged to return the full amount of stolen funds to clients within 30 days. This will happen if the bank allowed the transfer of money to a fraudulent account that is in a special database of the Central Bank or the bank did not send the client a notification of the transfer that was made without the client’s consent. In addition, the bank is obliged to return the funds if the client notified about the loss of the bank card.
Earlier, the Central Bank expanded the list of signs of fraudulent transactions for bank employees.