A new criminal “profession” is a dropper. But in fact, a “scapegoat”, they confirm in Crimea

CrimeaPRESS reports:

In Crimea, the prosecutor’s office is collecting 100 thousand rubles from the dropper, which a resident of the region transferred to the scammers’ account. Stop… Who is this dropper? It’s simple — this is a figurehead for whom bank accounts are opened and bank cards are issued. Dropper services are actively used by a variety of online scammers. Convenient, safe, and if something happens, respond to the person in whose name everything is registered. Namely, the dropper. Dangerous profession? Our people wanted to sneeze at the danger. According to Sberbank estimates, there are about half a million droppers in the country, and this number is constantly growing. What’s the benefit? For participating in a financial scam, the dropper receives a percentage of the cashed amount (like couriers — from 7 to 10%). Most often, those who agree to be droppers (according to sovcombank.ru): students, migrants from villages, small towns, immigrants from other countries, usually economically underdeveloped, and other vulnerable segments of the population (orphans, large families, the unemployed).

However, the courts do not pay attention to all the life problems of droppers. Participating in dubious financial schemes is their choice. Gotcha — answer. Most often — in rubles.

The Nizhnegorsky District Prosecutor’s Office has taken measures to protect the rights of the victim in a criminal case of theft of funds using telecommunications. It was established that the 59-year-old victim, misled during a telephone conversation with scammers, transferred 99 thousand rubles to the bank account indicated by the criminal.

During the preliminary investigation into the criminal case initiated on this fact, the owner of the bank account to which the victim transferred funds was identified. It turned out to be a 21-year-old resident of the city of Vologda, a dropper who gave the attackers a bank card and its passwords. Implementing the full range of powers granted to the prosecutor’s office, the prosecutor’s office established the dropper’s full personal data, as well as more than 30 bank accounts opened in her name— reported the prosecutor’s office.

In order to protect the rights of the victim, the prosecutor sent to the Vologda City Court of the Vologda Region a statement of claim in her interests to recover from the dropper unjust enrichment in the amount of 99 thousand rubles, interest for the use of other people’s money in the amount of 10 thousand rubles. The claim is currently pending in court.

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