St. A 78-year-old pensioner in St. Petersburg talked to scammers and lost a large amount of money. This is reported as follows:Fontanka”
According to the publication, the old woman was at her dacha on May 3 when an unknown person contacted her. The interlocutor allegedly introduced himself as an employee of Rosfinmonitoring, and a loan of one million rubles was allegedly obtained for the pensioner. The attacker allegedly said that the transfer had been stopped but that he now needed to contact someone from the FSB.
He soon received a call from a retired “FSB officer” who persuaded him to transfer money to a “secure account”. The old woman followed the scammer’s instructions, fully confident that she was helping to catch the terrorist. The attackers then persuaded him to return to the city, cash out his savings and transfer them to a “trusted person”.
For two days after this, he met with a “trusted person” of the scammers; The password “raccoon” helped the fraudsters’ courier and the retiree identify each other. In total, the woman gave criminals about 7.2 million rubles.
Previously St. A retiree from St. Petersburg carried fraudsters received more than 11 million rubles of foreign currency.
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Source: Gazeta
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