OREANDA-NEWS Recently, the Sber has identified ten credit financial pyramids, which affected at least 2.3 thousand people. This was stated in an interview with RIA Novosti by Stanislav Kuznetsov, Deputy Chairman of the bank's Board.

According to him, the problem of financial pyramids has begun to manifest itself again, but if earlier scammers wanted to attract citizens' funds through promises of high income, now the victim is losing the funds borrowed.

The bottom line is that a person takes out a loan for a fee, after which he transfers the bulk of the funds to fraudsters. They leave him a small share and promise to regularly send funds to repay the loan. This happens for several months, after which the victim takes out a new loan. After a few episodes, the scammers disappear.

Nevertheless, Kuznetsov stressed, the Savings Bank managed to protect customer loans totaling 1.6 billion rubles from this kind of theft.

Earlier, the deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia, Philip Gabunia, said that fraudsters tried to launch a financial pyramid under the guise of a tool from the digital financial assets market (CFA). This was avoided at the last moment.