The scammer found out about the customer’s phone at the car service and took the money from him

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In the Voronezh region, a decision was made about a local resident who fraudulently obtained the phone number of one of the customers in a car service and withdrew 15,000 rubles from a man on the pretext of paying for the repair. In this respect reported Press service of the Anninsky District Court.

“In September 2022,” K “decided to steal money from a citizen through deception and breach of trust, while he developed a criminal scheme accordingly, where he would find advertisements for car services and find the phone numbers of legitimate owners on a website. The court said in a statement, “Internet information and “The telecommunications network will ask cars under repair to call these people and transfer money to them on the pretext of paying for the repair.”

As a result, using the received number, he called the unknown owner of a Renault car under repair and introduced himself as a car service employee. The scammer convinced the car owner to transfer 15 thousand rubles to him for painting the car on a bank card, and he did so. To get money, the criminal used someone else’s card. He was sentenced to one year in prison for fraud.

It was learned earlier that the Lada driver died in Bashkiria. crushed A passenger getting out of his car. Examination showed that the man was sober at the time of the accident.

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