In the Smolensk region, scammers blackmailed men with correspondence. In this respect reports Unified press service of the courts of the Smolensk region.
According to law enforcement officials, a resident of the village of Monastyrshchina wanted to earn money after his release from the colony and involved an acquaintance in this.
The woman registered on social networks as a minor, met men and then sent explicit messages.
Then an acquaintance called them and introduced himself as the interlocutor’s father or the law enforcement officer who was supposed to bring the man to justice. To solve the problem without consequences, the victim of the scam was offered to transfer money to the specified account.
They made money this way for about three years. It is not yet known how law enforcement learned about the incident.
A man and a woman became defendants in a criminal case. The first was in prison for nine years, the second will be in prison for five years.
Previously in Bashkiria prisoner A woman who forces her friend into prostitution.