63% of calls to smartphones of Russians are spam
Kaspersky Who Calls service specialists calculated how many calls
Thus, according to published data, almost63% of all incoming calls from unknown numbers among Russians in 2020 were spam. Experts noted that most often this winter, subscribers were asked to use loan services in spam calls. In summer, in turn, spam calls from debt collectors were recorded more often.
At Kaspersky Lab AlsoWe found that a sharp increase in calls from scammers occurred in the second half of May. Muscovites and residents of the Moscow region were most susceptible to calls from fraudulent numbers. It was in these regions that the number of suspected spam calls almost doubled. At the same time, at the end of August, Russians received fewer such calls.