Since the beginning of 2023, more cases of fraud have been opened in Ukraine than in the whole of 2021. This is reported by the open data platform Opendatabot..

Thus, the data of the Prosecutor General’s Office indicate that in the first four months of 2023, 26,734 criminal proceedings were registered under Art.. 190 CCU on fraud. This is already 2,887 cases more than in all of 2021..

In January-April 2023, twice as many criminal proceedings under the fraud article were registered as in the corresponding period of 2021, and more than 4 times more than the corresponding period last year: 12,235 cases and 6,385 cases, respectively.

On average, 6,683 fraud proceedings are opened per month in 2023. For comparison, for the corresponding period of 2021, 3,059 fraud cases per month were recorded..

At the same time, it should be noted that only every ninth fraud case reaches the court this year.. So, in January-April 2023, only 11% of the total number of registered proceedings were litigated. For comparison, for the corresponding period in 2022, the court considered 14% of cases under Article 190 of the Criminal Code, and in the same period in 2021 - 19%.

Three popular thieving schemes are identified in the information campaign of the NBU "

The first two are already familiar hacking of accounts in social networks and fake SMS messages supposedly from the bank.

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But since the beginning of the big invasion, a new scam has appeared..

In particular, regarding the receipt of social payments from the state or international organizations, people are asked for a mobile phone number, pin code, password for Internet banking, SMS code from the bank. Attackers even create fraudulent sites that look like the real sites of government agencies, international organizations, banks and charitable foundations in order to make the scam look more convincing..