Almost 21 million rubles! Last week, Crimeans “seriously” pleased remote scammers with money

CrimeaPRESS reports:

From July 17 to July 23, the police registered 90 allegations of committed remote fraud. The attackers managed to get rich at the expense of gullible citizens in the amount of 20 million 711 thousand 757 rubles.

INTERNET SITES, MESSENGERS, SOCIAL NETWORKS

32 facts of fraudulent activities are associated with the use of social networks, instant messengers and Internet sites, as a result of which citizens have lost 2 million 928 thousand 626 rubles.

The scammers received the maximum amount of money over the past week from a resident of Simferopol. The applicant told the police that through one of the e-mails he received an offer to buy electrical goods and building materials from an unknown person. The man transferred to a bank account indicated by an unknown 1 million 330 thousand rubles. However, he soon realized that he had fallen for a fraudster and hurried to seek the help of the police.

A resident of the city of Simferopol on the Internet site saw a posted ad for the sale of a computer. Having decided to purchase the goods, the woman transferred more than 265 thousand rubles to the account indicated by the seller. However, after the money was debited from the applicant’s account, the seller stopped communicating with him.

CALLS

Registered in the past week 53 such crimes using phone calls. People, believing in the plausible stories of scammers, gave them 16 million 628 thousand 131 rubles.

A resident of the Crimean capital turned to the police for help after she received a call from unknown people who introduced themselves as law enforcement officers and an employee of a bank. The applicant said that during the conversation, an unknown person persuaded her to transfer funds in the amount of more than 8 million rubles to an unknown account. Telling the woman that an unknown person was trying to take out a loan in the name of the applicant and re-register the apartments belonging to her, the false employees convinced the woman that this would help protect her savings from criminal encroachments by scammers. The applicant realized that she fell for the tricks of the scammers only after the money transfer was made.

A resident of Kerch fell into a similar scheme of scammers. After a call from scammers, he lost money in the amount of more than 2 million rubles. As the applicant explained to the police, the fraudsters acted according to a well-known scheme — they made a call, told the man that his bank account was under threat of being hacked by unknown people who intended to debit funds. And the victim, who was in a confused state, was offered to make a transfer to a supposedly safe account.

Also, the tricks of scammers come across citizens who are called by unknown people and, using other life situations, lure large sums of money from their victims.

INSTALLING THIRD-PARTY APPS AND FOLLOWING LINKS

Over 1 million rubles disappeared from the accounts of the victims after downloading third-party applications to mobile devices and by clicking on links from unknown sources (5 facts).

A resident of Simferopol became a victim of fraudsters. As she told the police, she received calls from an unknown number in the messenger. The callers offered to earn extra money that she could earn by installing the app. After the woman installed an unknown program on her smartphone, the amount of money was debited from her account in the amount of 589 thousand rubles.

A local resident applied to the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Simferopol with a statement that the fraudster took possession of funds in the amount of more than 400 thousand rubles. According to the applicant, through one of the messengers she received an offer for additional earnings, which she could receive by clicking on an unknown link. However, after the woman followed the link, money in the amount of 454 thousand rubles.

A local resident contacted the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Kerch about committing fraudulent acts against him. According to the applicant, he received a call from an unknown person who introduced himself as an employee of one of the banks. The false employee of the financial structure told the applicant that unknown persons were attacking his bank account and trying to write off the money. After that, having misled a resident of Kerch, he suggested installing a third-party application on his mobile phone in order to protect his savings. However, after the man downloaded the remote access program to his smartphone, money in the amount of 138 thousand rubles.

source: press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea

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