In Seversk, Tomsk region, phone scammers persuaded a 75-year-old man, his 71-year-old wife and 51-year-old son to sell a car and transfer the proceeds to a so-called “safe” account. In this respect reported On the website of the regional office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
“The attacker convinced the head of the family that his car was pawned at one of the banks and that you would have to draw up a fictitious sales contract to get it back. At the caller’s instructions, the victim, together with his son, filled out the necessary paperwork, sold the car, withdrew all his savings, applied for a loan to one of the banks and transferred more than 1.7 million rubles to the specified number. ,” says the police report.
The next day, the scammers persuaded the same citizens to lend more than 5.2 million rubles. The total amount of damage exceeded 7 million rubles, a criminal case was opened on the fact of fraud.
It was learned that he was in Kirov earlier. burned garage with police patrol cars.