Criminals posing as employees of a car dealership defrauded a Kostroma resident who ordered a car from an advertisement on the Internet of more than 1 million rubles. In this respect reported On the Telegram channel of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
“To verify the purity of the transaction, the manager sent the Kostroma resident a link with rave reviews about the work of the salon and promised that the car would arrive in Kostroma within 12 days. “The potential buyer who received the contract paid an advance of 350 thousand and started waiting.”
A week later, company representatives informed the customer that he would have to pay an additional 345 thousand rubles for customs clearance of the car, and then asked to transfer another 365 thousand rubles to complete the transaction.
After the man transferred a total of 1.06 million rubles, the ad was deleted and its authors stopped communicating. Thereupon, the victim contacted the police.
It was previously known in Russia expected Record growth in second-hand car sales.