Sberbank will return money transferred to scammers to customers

Sber is testing a program to return money to customers that they mistakenly transferred to scammers. About it informs TASS with reference to the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Stanislav Kuznetsov.

This will be useful in cases where the client, due to his own mistake, transfers money to scammers to the Sberbank account. By power of attorney from the affected client, the bank will be able to launch a refund through the court in a simplified manner. Now the return period has been reduced to a month, in the future they will be reduced to several days.

The project was based on the “anti-money laundering” law 115-FZ, which allows you to block money in the bank account of the alleged fraudster for 10 days. After blocking, the bank can inform the client about the situation, and upon receipt of the power of attorney and application, start the return process on his behalf.

Sber plans to launch such a service in May, details and conditions have not yet been specified.