The pensioner gave the scammers more than 6 million rubles and communicated with them for a month

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In Barnaul, a 64-year-old woman suffered from crooks she believed twice. This has been reported area Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Altai Territory.

A townswoman turned to the city police department and said that unknown persons had stolen more than 6 million rubles from her. She explained that from July to August she interacted with the scammers, followed their instructions, and disposed of her money at their discretion.

At the same time, it was learned that the scammers first came into contact with a woman at the end of June. Then the victim transferred 410 thousand rubles to his accounts, and also applied for a loan. He was planning to receive 2 million rubles. and also transfer them to scammers, but a bank employee contacted the police and reported their fraudulent activity.

However, after a while, the attackers contacted the old woman again. Allegedly, the victim received a call from a bank employee who had spoken to her before and blamed the woman for contacting the police, recalling that an investigator was already investigating her case. The law enforcement officer then said that a retiree who wants to avoid illegally given loans on his behalf should “exhaust his credit potential” and then transfer the funds received to “safe accounts”.

The next month, the victim took several loans, including those secured by real estate, and also borrowed money from relatives and paid her salary. However, the scammers claimed that the credit potential of the woman has not been closed yet. When he sent them a wire transfer of 50 thousand rubles, they cut off communication with him.

To date, a criminal case has been launched regarding the fact of fraud committed on a particularly large scale.

Formerly Moscow threatened to blow up bank office Because of the unnecessary support.

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