A spokesman of the Interior Ministry said that these cases included only appeals to the police.

The MIA press service therefore called on citizens to be vigilant. He also asked not to give out bank card information and confirmation codes to anyone. It was noted that only fraudsters ask citizens for verification codes.

Bank card theft is becoming more common. A spokesman of olx.uz told Gazeta.uz that in the last three months of 2021, the company received 927 complaints about withdrawals from plastic cards.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, for 11 months of 2021, the total number of crimes related to theft and embezzlement of funds from bank cards in the country amounted to 2,024. Of these, 1,485 were cases of fraud using bank cards (Article 168 of the Criminal Code) and 539 were cases of theft of bank cards.

In this regard, the MIA Investigation Department and its subdivisions in January-November 2021 conducted a preliminary investigation and inquiry into a total of 1,245 criminal cases. As a result, 812 of them were completed and sent to the relevant judicial authorities with the indictment. 73 were terminated in accordance with Articles 83 and 84 of the Criminal Procedural Code (CPC), 159 were terminated in accordance with the relevant paragraphs of Article 364 of the CPC, 9 were sent to the relevant authorities, and 192 remained.

On February 7, the Central Bank released a song and a music video “Financial Mistakes” in order to raise the awareness of the population on financial security.

For information, as of December 1, 2021, the number of users of remote banking services in the country exceeded 20 million. The number of bank cards in circulation exceeded 26.5 million.