A 36-year-old resident of Sevastopol gave a million to a fraudster from the “investigative authorities”

CrimeaPRESS reports:

Sevastopol police warn: scammers continue to steal money from gullible citizens. The last case is “per million”. And the victim was a citizen who was by no means of retirement age.

A 36-year-old local resident received a call from a stranger who introduced himself as an employee of the investigative authorities and said that scammers were trying to apply for a large loan on his behalf, so he needed to get ahead of them. Following the instructions of the telephone swindler, the Sevastopol resident went to the bank, where he issued two credit loans totaling more than 1.1 million rubles, and then transferred all the money to the account dictated to him. Later, realizing that he had become a victim of a remote scammer, the man contacted the police— the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Sevastopol gave details.

Based on this fact, a criminal case was initiated under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Fraud”).

The Sevastopol police once again urges city residents not to trust callers who report that there are problems with your money in your bank accounts. Regardless of who they introduce themselves to you as — employees of banks, law enforcement or investigative agencies, and what troubles they threaten, remember, telephone scammers are trying to deceive you in this way. If you want to save your money from criminal attacks, immediately stop the conversation and call the police yourself on 102.

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