A resident of Sevastopol transferred almost one hundred thousand rubles to a “safe account”

CrimeaPRESS reports:

Sevastopol police warns: remote scammers continue to steal the savings of gullible citizens. Another story — from the Leninsky district of the Hero city.

A 44-year-old local resident contacted the police, who said that in the afternoon an unknown person called her on her mobile phone, introducing himself as a bank employee and reporting allegedly unauthorized actions with the funds in her bank account. To “prevent money from being debited,” the stranger demanded that they be urgently transferred to a “safe” account. Misled, the woman transferred thousands of rubles to the details 98 indicated by the attacker.

Realizing that she was a victim of fraud, the victim contacted the police. The applicant knew about the existence of this fraudulent scheme, but fearing for the safety of her money, she thoughtlessly complied with the requirements of the remote fraudster and became a victim of a crime. The employees of the internal affairs bodies have initiated a criminal case on this fact and are taking all the necessary measures aimed at identifying and searching for the criminal.

In order to avoid such crimes, the Sevastopol police ask you to take precautionary measures.

When you receive such calls, you should remain calm, reasonable and critical of the words of a stranger, no matter who he appears to be. It should be noted that attackers may be proficient in banking terminology and have some information about you (for example, they will call you by name and patronymic), as well as make a call from a phone number identical to the number of the bank serving you, or send a scanned copy of a fake ID of a bank employee or law enforcement officer.

However, it must be remembered that real representatives of banks and law enforcement officers do not require the transfer of funds to a “reserve account”, do not ask for confidential bank card data, do not insist on installing any mobile applications or obtaining a loan under various pretexts. These requirements can only be handled by remote scammers. In the situation described above, it is recommended to immediately stop the telephone conversation and contact the bank that serves you on your own to make sure that everything is in order with your savings , — they said in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Sevastopol.

If you have suffered from fraud, then you must immediately contact the nearest territorial division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia or report it by phone 102.