Telephone fraud is becoming more sophisticated: even the most advanced protection systems do not provide a 100% guarantee. Beeline at SPIEF 2026 announced the testing of free insurance that will compensate the client’s losses if scammers manage to deceive him. The project partner was AlfaStrakhovanie, and coverage for some clients reaches 500 thousand rubles per month. Who will receive maximum protection, what needs to be done to connect and why the number of fraudulent calls has been reduced by half, but the threat has not disappeared – in the material of Lenta.ru.
At SPIEF
At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Beeline revealed details of testing free insurance against telephone fraud.
Coverage will be up to 500 thousand rubles per month – depending on the client’s bank
AlfaStrakhovanie became a partner. About 4 million of the operator’s subscribers will take part in the testing; starting in September, the service is planned to be extended to the entire customer base.
Terms of protection
The insurance covers thefts committed by telephone using social engineering methods, provided that the client was not warned about the attempted deception. To take advantage of the protection, you need to set the Beeline number in your bank as the main contact.
For clients of Sber and Alfa-Bank, insurance coverage will be available by default; clients of other banks will need to approve the connection in the Beeline application
The insurance limit will be 500 thousand rubles per month for clients of Sberbank and Alfa-Bank and 200 thousand rubles for clients of other banks. The number of requests per person is not limited.
The race never ends
The new insurance is part of Beeline’s comprehensive approach to anti-fraud, which includes protecting the network perimeter, spam marking, blocking multiple calls and identifying signs of malicious intent during a conversation. Statistics show: these tools work.
Since the beginning of the year, the operator’s anti-fraud system has blocked about 303 million fraudulent and spam calls – compared to almost 640 million for the same period last year
However, the number of clients rescued fell by only about a third over the same period, from 87.4 million to 57.3 million. This means that attackers are changing their tactics: where they cannot win with quantity, they rely on quality – they plan attacks more carefully and improve their social engineering methods.
According to him, the operator is not going to give up and is working in a number of directions, coming from different sides. Now, without additional effort and expense, customers will have access to not only reliable multi-level protection, but also a guarantee of financial compensation in case criminals manage to deceive them – so that they can feel safer when using mobile communications and banking services.
Background
The new insurance is a significant improvement over what was available before. In the summer of 2025, for users of the PRO version of the My Security service, a service for reimbursement of stolen funds was launched with a limit of 25 thousand rubles.
The new product covers all of the operator’s clients and increases coverage by 20 times.
Common front
The insurance side of the project is provided by AlfaStrakhovanie. “Today, the fight against fraud requires the combined efforts of telecom operators, banks, the state and insurance companies. The fewer “blind spots” there are between market participants, the more difficult it is for attackers to act,” said Vladimir Skvortsov, General Director of AlfaStrakhovanie.
According to him, the joint project with Beeline makes it possible to supplement technological protection tools with insurance coverage – as a result, the client receives not only a warning about the risk and protection against fraudulent calls, but also financial support in the event of the worst-case scenario.
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Source: Lenta