A resident of Yekaterinburg, working as the head of a department of a consulting group, lost 14 million rubles due to scammers. This was reported by control Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region.
An unidentified person called the man, introducing himself as an FSB officer, and stated that unidentified people wanted to apply for a loan for him. To be convincing, the subscriber sent the Russian a decision allegedly related to a criminal case against unknown persons.
The fraudster persuaded the victim to withdraw more than 6.7 million rubles from the account, and then the “Financial Monitoring employee” explained where the money should be transferred. Thereupon, it was claimed that unidentified people took loans many times and the man had to apply for a “mirror” loan. So the scammers defrauded him of more than seven million rubles. He then allegedly gave more than 100 thousand rubles to unidentified persons due to a “system error”.
As a result, the Russian realized that he had been deceived, and then contacted law enforcement agencies. The issue of initiating criminal proceedings is currently being decided.
Previously a woman in the Tula region taken He gave the money to fraudsters with a loan of 11 million rubles.
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Source: Gazeta
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