Sberbank and Friends Drive 30% of Spam Calls, Fight to Keep Robocalling
Imagine a world where your phone rings, and instead of a scammer from a fake security department, it's your actual bank desperately trying to sell you a credit card you never asked for. Yes, the call is coming from inside the house, and they are fighting dirty to keep doing it.
Data submitted to the Ministry of Digital Development regarding user complaints reveals the staggering scale of corporate phone harassment. Out of all mass automated calls flooding mobile networks, nearly a third originate directly from financial institutions. We are talking about 1.2 billion automated intrusions in just three months, which boils down to roughly 400 million buzzing pockets every single month.
The undisputed king of this phone terror is Sberbank, blasting out between 100 and 120 million calls monthly, with about 25 million originating from their infamous short-number 900. While citizens desperately search for a silent mode, Sberbank, Alfa-Bank, and Sovcombank have been aggressively lobbying to bypass the strict anti-spam regulations introduced in late 2025.
Their excuse is as beautiful as it is hilarious: they claim these automated intrusions are not annoying ads, but "essential service notifications" and "anti-fraud measures" vital for customer safety. The regulators, however, point out that these financial giants are commercial entities driven solely by profit, and their friendly reminders are actually just disguised marketing pitches.
To make matters worse, debt collection calls remain the most toxic segment of this communication flood, routinely violating statutory limits on frequency. Mobile operators like MegaFon are now pushing for mandatory call labeling, suggesting that any unverified automated call should be blocked at the network level immediately.
It turns out the biggest threat to peace and quiet isn't some shadowy hacker group in a basement, but respectable suits in high-rise offices who simply refuse to stop dialing. If a bank cannot convince someone to buy their product through an app, they will apparently just ring them until the battery dies.
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