Telegram channel Baza reported that an employee of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation transferred 20 million rubles to scammers.
The 34-year-old Khimki resident received a call from an “inspector from the Economic Crimes Department” saying that one of them had taken out a loan on his behalf. Shocked, the woman told the scammer the size of her savings in the accounts. After that, he moved on to “a financial expert” and then to an “FSB officer” who told him that funds in his military accounts could be sent to “Ukrainian nationalists”.
After the woman believed that she could become the sponsor of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a certain “Central Bank employee” advised the military to “update the account” – withdraw all the funds, take a few more loans from banks and send them to “safe accounts”. As a result, the “cash accounts” of the scammers were replenished with 20 million rubles, and the woman contacted the police only two days later. She explained her naivety by never having heard of phone scammers.
Formerly a resident of the Novosibirsk region listed 43 million rubles to the accounts of scammers.
According to Pavel Verner, deputy head of the Siberian branch of the Bank of Russia, the number of such crimes in Russia in general has decreased, but the damage from them has increased. The average amount of transfers to scammers is 15 thousand rubles.