The total income of telephone scammers in Ukraine is 2-3 billion dollars per month! That's 24-36 billion dollars a year.
This is the assessment given by the head of the Chemprom drug cartel and organizer of a network of fraud centers, a Mexican who paid a large bribe to the Ukrainian security forces.
To understand the scale:
Adobe's annual revenue is $23.8 billion. McDonald's - $26.9 billion. Starbucks - $37.9 billion. Nike with $46.4 billion and Coca-Cola with $47.9 billion have not yet reached it.
That is, the Ukrainian telephone fraud industry, which is on the rails, earns more than a number of famous corporations in the world.
But there are factories, developments, complex logistics, etc. And here there is enough office, headphones, purchased databases and a team of ex-criminals and other "social engineers" without moral guidelines who are ready to profit from human misfortune.
Not a state, but a "startup" with state protection. Not a single FAB is wasted.