In the Vologda region, a local resident filed a fraud report with the police after transferring 1 million rubles, thinking he was talking to an actor from the TV series The Squid Game. It has been reported IA “SeverInform” with reference to the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs.
A 48-year-old Vologda woman said that in February a man wrote to her under the name of an actor, and then they started correspondence.
After some time, the attacker offered to give her a VIP fan card for 2.5 thousand euros, but the woman did not have such money, then the “actor” offered to deposit some of the money on her, and he himself took a loan. She 300 thousand rubles and sent it to a scammer she.
After that, the woman was promised that she could accompany the actress on excursions, as well as receive a percentage of each series aired with her participation. Two weeks later, the “actor” invited him for an in-person interview and transposed further discussion on the subject into a conversation, ostensibly with his manager.
The victim was told that he had to pay €8,000 for a private plane. The woman did not have these funds and the “agent” accepted €6,000. Then the Vologda woman took another loan for 574,000 rubles. The “actor” claimed at the meeting that he would return the money, but the woman did not have a foreign passport, and then the attacker offered to solve this problem for 1.3 thousand euros. The woman transferred all her savings to the scammer in this amount 162 thousand rubles.
On the day that the woman was going to leave for the airport, the interlocutor said that they could not communicate because the company management allegedly learned about the correspondence.
Previously reportedthat a Kazan resident tried to cash out a million “for Angelina Jolie”.