A resident of Omsk became a victim of scammers, giving them his savings. This was reported by control Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region.
According to the woman’s statement, the head of the health institution where she worked wrote a letter to her saying that law enforcement would be looking for her.
Later, an “FSB employee” claimed that the Russian woman’s account was hacked and from there 200 thousand rubles were transferred to the territory of Ukraine. It was alleged that for such actions the woman faces criminal liability. To prevent this, the health worker was asked to follow several instructions.
“Following instructions, the woman transferred 2 million 200 thousand rubles, which she had saved up over 10 years, to the criminals’ accounts within a week using a special application for contactless money transfer,” the ministry said.
According to the “Central Bank employee” the money was sent to a safe account and will be returned to the victim after some manipulations. Then the scammers asked for a loan and the woman realized that she had been deceived.
Previously Russian translated scammers took 28.4 million rubles, which he had saved for 30 years.
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Source: Gazeta
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