An accomplice of scammers who stole $280,000 from a family from Yalta was detained in Crimea
A 39-year-old local resident contacted the duty station of Police Department No. 1 “Alupkinsky” of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Yalta. She said that her minor daughter became a victim of a fraudulent scheme, as a result of which she transferred family savings — about 280 thousand US dollars — to unknown people.
The police previously established that the 17-year-old girl allegedly received a call from a delivery service worker with a message about a package that had arrived in her name. Despite the lack of orders, the interlocutor insisted on the need to urgently pick up the parcel and convinced him to dictate the code from the SMS. The resulting combination of numbers allowed the attackers to gain access to the minor’s personal account on the government services portal.
Having taken possession of personal data, the scammers proceeded to intimidate the victim of their deception: they told the girl that on her behalf, allegedly someone, by some power of attorney, could finance an organization that is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation. Threatening criminal prosecution for treason against all family members, the scammers demanded that the teenager hand over all his savings in the house.
Having learned that her parents’ money was kept in a safe, the attackers extracted information about her loved ones and passwords to their smartphones from the frightened girl. Using the selection method, they managed to calculate the code for the vault, after which, in the absence of adults, the minor took the cash and handed over the backpack with bills to the arriving courier girl.
As a result of the operational search activities carried out, employees of the criminal investigation unit established the identity and location of the criminal messenger who took the money, and then detained her. The accomplice of the scammers turned out to be a 21-year-old resident of Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Territory.
The suspect was taken to the peninsula for investigation. During interrogation, she confessed everything and explained that she herself had previously lost 350 thousand rubles due to similar fraud. To get her savings back, she agreed to the offer of the scammers who deceived her to become their courier. Having received money from the victim in Crimea, the girl took a taxi paid for by the recruiters to Krasnodar, where she handed over the bag to an unknown man. The personal fee for the crime tour amounted to 65 thousand rubles.
The investigative department of OP No. 1 “Alupkinsky” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Yalta opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The defendant is currently in custody. The investigation is ongoing.
source: press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea
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