A large-scale financial literacy lesson was held for schoolers from all over the country at the All-Russian Children's Centre 'Ocean'. The students were told about phishing and the security of a digital identity, they showed how important it is to secure personal data. Everything is within the framework of the starting Financial Security Olympiad. Our correspondent, Sergey Komarov, covered the lesson.
27 regions. Hundreds of people are in the audience. Schoolers from all over Russia gathered in the concert hall of the children's centre 'Ocean'. An important topic is under discussion. Everyone is studying the financial security of an individual on the Internet.
The lesson is built in the conversation format. Here everyone can express their opinion on a particular issue. Vladislav Ivanov is among the active participants. The student personally encountered cases of fraud on the network:
“Friend, I’m sorry, I accidentally transferred money to you. I’ll transfer the money back as I'm not such a bad person, think I to myself. Later it turned out that it was my mother who transferred this money to me, so I immediately blocked that person”.
The lesson was devoted to the Financial Security Olympiad. The schoolers showed a good level of knowledge. Even experts have noticed this.
Olga Tatarnikova, the Head of the Territorial Department of the Interregional Department of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring in the Far Eastern Federal District in Vladivostok:
“How to protect yourself, how to secure your personal data, what are the financial hygiene and behavior? The children are very active, they have a fairly high level of training. I noted that they could be potential candidates for employment in our service!
A useful conversation was not in vain. Lecture guests have become even more careful about their personal data. Now they remove even the most harmless at first glance information from social networks.
Vladislav Ivanov, student:
“Here I have photographs where I was engaged in some kind of activity, in a project. It was written where I studied, the city I lived in, but I thought it would be better not to write it. And I removed this information. Even my date of birth is different there.”
Young people will apply the acquired knowledge in life. And some of them will go further and take part in the second stage of the Financial Literacy Olympiad.
