A resident of Nizhny Novgorod, believing the scammers, gave all his savings and took a large loan. About this reports Regional Ministry of Internal Affairs.
A 65-year-old woman from Nizhny Novgorod filed a complaint with law enforcement agencies. She said she was a victim of scammers. First, she received a message from one of the messengers, allegedly from a former manager, saying that she was put on the wanted list.
The pensioner was contacted by fake police, who intimidated the Russian woman by saying that a criminal case had been opened against her for several transfers to an unfriendly country. To cancel suspicious transactions, the pensioner was persuaded to apply for a loan in the amount of 980 thousand rubles and transfer the money to the details specified by the scammers.
The woman was then forced to cash out all her savings, and also transfer money to “safe” accounts. The total damage amounted to 17.3 million rubles. A criminal case was opened for fraud on a particularly large scale, the sanction of which provides for a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
He was previously a St. Petersburg retiree Trustworthy to scammers and lost almost 8 million rubles.
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Source: Gazeta
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