A resident of Syktyvkar suffered from scammers who meddled in the layout of Tarot cards. It has been reported press office Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Komi Republic.
A young girl saw on social networks an advertisement for a company that allegedly helps people in various difficult life situations, divination on cards and other psychic services. As a result, the 24-year-old Russian woman decided to order a Tarot expansion for love, which costs only 850 rubles.
But the settlement specialist said that the girl was harmed and demanded 100 thousand rubles for her “removal”. The victim agreed, sent the entire amount, but later their savings were exhausted, and the “healers” found new conspiracies for the girl’s relatives, whose work required additional cash injections.
In total, a resident of Syktyvkar transferred 1,435,800 rubles to scammers, for whom he even assumed loan obligations.
“On this fact, the Investigation Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs of the city of Syktyvkar initiated a criminal case on the grounds of a crime (fraud) in accordance with Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation,” the police concluded.
It was learned that there was a psychic from Togliatti before. He will be tried for “fixing the damage” with the help of money and jewelry..