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The service representatives noted that artificial intelligence technologies helped block over 6.1 billion spam and fraudulent emails in three months. The number of user complaints about such emails decreased by 36.9%: "If in the last quarter of 2023 there were more than 26 million such requests, then for the same period in 2024 their volume was 16.4 million. Analysts emphasized that there is a trend towards mailings about lotteries, sweepstakes and online casinos. This accounts for more than 36% of the daily blocked messages."

of the anti-spam department at Pochta Mail, new types of fraud that are disguised as legitimate offers are actively attracting the attention of users: "Such letters often contain elements that inspire confidence, such as logos of famous brands or links to official websites."

The head of the IT belgium telegram department of the Polilog agency, Lyudmila Bogatyreva, believes that in the run-up to the New Year, many companies are actively using lotteries and sweepstakes in marketing campaigns to attract audiences to goods and services: "The increase in the number of phishing emails about lotteries and sweepstakes is probably due to attempts by fraudsters to take advantage of this trend to deceive users."

Maxim Akimov, head of the Innostage SOC CyberART cyber threat counteraction center, emphasized that such letters often contain links to fake Internet resources similar in design to the official websites of the lottery organizers: "In this way, attackers can obtain the user's personal data, right down to the bank card details, or simply convince them to pay for a non-existent lottery ticket. Such sites can be accessed not only through a mailing list, but also through a search resource. Therefore, the main rule for the user remains standard: carefully check the address of the Internet resource, it is advisable not to follow the link, but to enter the address manually, using a trusted source, and also use official mobile applications."

Kai Mikhailov, Head of Information Security at Itprotect, said that topics of lotteries, sweepstakes, casinos and any other quick money are always overly popular as a phishing trigger: For example, many years ago there was a boom in letters with a link to a large inheritance left by a relative in another country. In the modern context, this has migrated to a new format, where the calculation is that the user has definitely participated somewhere and suddenly got lucky, all that remains is to collect the winnings. Moreover, this is mainly aimed at excessive curiosity: the user needs to open some file from the email to get malware on the device."