Within the framework of ensuring information security and combating crime, the RA National Security Service constantly keeps the sphere of information technologies in the spotlight in order to identify possible manifestations of abuse, prevent their spread and eradicate them.

One of the most important missions of the activities of the National Security Bodies is not only the detection and prevention of this type of socially dangerous acts, but also the early warning of the implementation of criminal intentions, the disruption of the further development of illegal behavior and the neutralization of impending negative consequences, and for this purpose, the structure with its various tools helps to increase the level of public awareness.

It is noteworthy that individuals and criminal groups operating in the mentioned field, using various innovative tools and means of the IT sphere, mainly target the middle and older generation, the socially insecure and vulnerable class, taking advantage of the low level of awareness of the latter in the field of IT.

It is not a secret that information about services provided by credit and financial institutions under various names has become widespread on the Internet, advertising about which is mainly distributed through social networks, in particular through “Facebook”.

Among the variety of these organizations, there are also those that, in order to steal money from citizens, offer “favorable” conditions. The latter, agreeing to the proposed “favorable” conditions, provide their personal data to strangers via the Internet and make money transfers they require to the “Idram”, “QIWI” and other payment and settlement wallets, as a result of which they become victims of fraud.

Subsequently, in order to avoid falling into a vulnerable position in the future, the National Security Service calls on the population, before establishing business relations or contacts with organizations that offer financial and credit services in the virtual domain, to verify the authenticity of these organizations, the services and conditions they offer, using a system of available tools, such as:

• find information on the official website of the RA Central Bank “www.cba.am” in the relevant section, about credit, insurance, pawnshop, payment and settlement organizations, currency offices and dealers, their managers and other financial organizations that came into view. For example, information about banks operating in the territory of the RA can be found at the following link: https://www.cba.am/am/sitepages/fscfobanks.aspx.
• through the official website of the RA Central Bank “www.cba.am” obtain information about state registration and issued license of a credit or financial organization that has come into view. For example, information on credit organizations operating in the territory of the Republic of Armenia can be found at the following link: https://www.cba.am/am/SitePages/fscfocreditorganizations.aspx.
• call the “hot line” numbers of the RA Central Bank: 010-59-26-97, 011-56-19-54 and 011-56-39-50.
• to find out the TIN and its authenticity, as well as to get information about the activity of the organization from the State Register of Legal Entities of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia. from the e-mail addresses of the Registration Services (www.e-register.am) and the RA State Revenue Committee (am). For example, on the website of the RA SRC, the authenticity of the organization's Tax Payers can be checked with the following link https://petekamutner.am/tsOS_Taxpayers.aspx.
• visit the activity offices of the organizations.
• find out the contact details of organizations, obtain information about their leaders. You can also use the Internet for more information about this.
• in case of any suspicious behavior or illegal activity, contact law enforcement agencies if you find.