{"id":21095,"date":"2025-02-12T15:47:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/in-2024-77-of-russian-pyramids-accepted-cryptocurrency-contributions\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T15:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:47:24","slug":"in-2024-77-of-russian-pyramids-accepted-cryptocurrency-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/in-2024-77-of-russian-pyramids-accepted-cryptocurrency-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"In 2024, 77% of Russian Pyramids Accepted Cryptocurrency Contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout 2024, the Central Bank of Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/cbr.ru\/analytics\/inside\/2024_2\/\">identified<\/a> 5510 entities with characteristics of financial pyramids, 77% of which accepted contributions in cryptocurrencies (in 2023, this figure was 50%).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the regulator, pseudo-investment offers &#8220;with guaranteed income&#8221; are also spreading offline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 20% of projects with signs of financial pyramids had more than two online resources. Telegram channels are particularly used actively to attract clients.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, over the past year, the regulator tracked 1936 entities with signs of illegal professional securities market participants \u2014 2.2 times more than the previous year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Illegal forex dealers offer clients to top up accounts in cryptocurrencies and purchase shares. For this, they recommend supposedly verified sellers [of digital assets] or guarantee the possibility of conducting transactions through foreign payment services,&#8221; the Central Bank reported.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fraudsters continue to use the pretense of having company licenses, guarantee profitable securities purchases, and offer trading with huge leverage.<\/p>\n<p>Potential clients are attracted through social networks and personal consultations in Telegram channels. The practice of cold calling has also resumed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Central Bank reported an increase in the number of pyramids in Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/rise-in-pyramid-schemes-disguised-as-clicker-games-in-russia\">disguised as clicker games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since July 25, 2024, a new mechanism for returning funds stolen by fraudsters has been in effect in Russian banks. It is capable of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russian-banks-new-anti-fraud-measures-may-hinder-cryptocurrency-exchange\">significantly complicating P2P operations<\/a> for cryptocurrency exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout 2024, the Central Bank of Russia identified 5510 entities with characteristics of financial pyramids, 77% of which accepted contributions in cryptocurrencies (in 2023, this figure was 50%).\u00a0 According to the regulator, pseudo-investment offers &#8220;with guaranteed income&#8221; are also spreading offline.\u00a0 Nearly 20% of projects with signs of financial pyramids had more than two online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[345,1163,27],"class_list":["post-21095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bank-of-russia","tag-ponzi-schemes","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}