The head of the administrative department of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Shtop, was deceived by a 23-year-old phone swindler for 3.8 million rubles. It has been reported telegraph channel Basis.
The publication states that this event occurred in March 2023. The scammer, named Shtop, identified himself as a bank employee and offered to transfer money to a “secure account” to protect them from an unidentified person who tried not to issue loans by proxy on behalf of the official.
“The apartment manager went to the terminals, withdrew 3.8 million from the account and threw everything into “protected” details. But later, when the feelings subsided, Shtop thought about it again and realized that he was brought up like a textbook, ”the publication says.
The publication emphasizes that law enforcement managed to detain a 23-year-old fraudster.
Before that, scammers in Moscow persuasion He told the pensioner that he was seriously ill and offered expensive drugs.
The 77-year-old woman was called by unidentified people. According to scammers, pills for a serious illness will cost him 910 thousand rubles. When the frightened Russian woman said she didn’t have that much money, the scammers reduced the cost to 250 thousand.
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