Police department No. 3 “Central” of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Simferopol received a statement from a 76-year-old pensioner who reported that she had become a victim of telephone fraud. The victim said that an unknown person called her on her landline phone and offered to extend the contract for communication services. Having agreed, the elderly woman dictated her personal information.
The next day, the pensioner allegedly received a call from an employee of the Federal Security Service, who stated that due to a leak of personal data, the attackers had opened a bank account in the applicant’s name in the amount of 1 million rubles, 500 thousand rubles, from which they had already transferred to support an organization banned in the Russian Federation. To gain confidence, the false employee warned the elderly woman about an upcoming search at her place of residence and offered to avoid it using the “declaration of funds” procedure, promising to return all savings later. Believing the unknown, the pensioner handed over cash in the amount of more than 517 thousand rubles to the courier who came to her. After some time, the woman realized that she had encountered scammers and contacted the police— reported the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Crimea.
Employees of the criminal investigation department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Simferopol identified and detained the assistant of remote scammers — he turned out to be a previously convicted 20-year-old resident of Sevastopol.
The young man explained that he had found a part-time job in one of the popular instant messengers. According to the instructions received from the coordinator, he had to go to the designated address, pick up a large sum of money and leave it at the designated place. The promised reward for this operation was 3 thousand rubles. However, after completing the order, the employer disappeared without paying his “assistant” the agreed amount.
An investigator from Police Department No. 3 “Central” of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Simferopol opened a criminal case under Part 3 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud”. The sanction provides for a maximum penalty of imprisonment for a term of up to six years with a fine of up to eighty thousand rubles. The attacker was taken into custody.
source: press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea
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