Crimeans continue to lose millions in the schemes of distance fraudsters

Schemes used by cyberfers according to the results of the past week:

• calls / calls in instant messengers (telegrams, votsap) on behalf of communication operators, bank employees, law enforcement agencies;
• «Safe» account;
• Your relative got into an accident;
• purchase and sale of goods on free ads;
• Investments in the company’s shares.

Through Internet sites, social networks and instant messengers, 38 people are deceived

Fraudsters not only offer citizens to hide their savings on a “safe score” and scare the financing of some illegal organizations, but also lure money under a seemingly completely harmless pretext, for example, to make a cake.

It was precisely such a proposal that the 30-year-old resident of Kerch, who found a group with confectionery on the Internet, decided to take advantage of this proposal. Inspired by photographs, she ordered a festive cake and transferred to the unknown culinary specialist who wrote to the messenger to the messenger 6 thousand rubles. The holiday was without the expected cake.

The 50-year-old Simferopol on the announcement website tried to make a purchase of thoroughbred puppies: the seller even threw him a sweet video on the “Wotsap”. However, something went wrong with payment. “The owner of the puppies” asked the future owner to demonstrate the phone screen in order to manage the actions of the buyer so that the money would be approved for the account. As a result, Simferopol was written off from the map 79 thousand rubles, and the seller stopped in touch.

A 25-year-old girl from Yalta transferred more than half a million rubles to an unknown score, trying to earn even more on a cryptocurrency exchange. A profitable proposal for increasing the income on trading was offered to her by a broker in the Telegram messenger. For two weeks, Yaltinka paid money to the account indicated in the chat, selling and buying digital assets: in the electronic rating she even saw her profit, but when she decided to withdraw the money and received income from the game, the exchange score was blocked.

40 citizens are deceived through calls

The Crimean police strongly recommend that you do not follow the instructions received as a result of a telephone conversation. In case of doubt about the conscientiousness of the caller, it is better to complete the call and call back the bank’s phone number or mobile operator (depending on who the interlocutor introduced himself).

Telephone scammers continue to apply the scheme of theft of money among adolescents and their parents, associated with supposedly illegal actions with a school electronic journal.

In Simferopol, the attackers called the mother of a high school student and convinced her to “pay off” the criminal liability, which allegedly threatened her son behind the hack of “Eljura”, the transfer of codes by unknown and other illegal actions with an online service. The woman went to the ATM and transferred 250 thousand rubles to the scales provided by scammers.

Remember! Law enforcement officers do not call by messengers! There are no safe accounts!

7 calls were made according to the scheme «Your relative was in an accident»

Despite many warnings about the long-used scheme, “Your relative got into an accident”, citizens continue to fall on her hook, for some reason believing that money can be resolved with law enforcement officers about non-criminal liability. This misconception and play of scammers on the feelings of loved ones, forces people to transfer considerable sums of money to unknown couriers or transfer funds to accounts provided by scammers.

For an elderly resident of the village of Partenit in the late evening, scammers played a telephone performance with the participation of a granddaughter who became the culprit of the accident. In a similar voice, the girl asked to transfer money for the treatment of victims in the accident and law enforcement officers — «so as not to be imprisoned.» At 12 in the morning, without reporting to anyone about “trouble”, the grandmother handed over to the courier with rubles and foreign currency 503 thousand rubles.

An 80-year-old resident of the Southern City of Alupka came across a similar scheme. The scammer called, introducing herself as a daughter, and even called the name. Crying in the phone, the “daughter” asked for money for the treatment of a pregnant woman, who allegedly affected her fault. The pensioner collected all savings in rubles, dollars and euros, which was from above 300 thousand rubles, and handed over to the messenger of scammers, who, a few hours after the call, was already waiting at the gate.

The police calls for citizens to be vigilant and be sure to tell relatives and friends about the existence of fraudulent schemes «Your relative got into an accident.» When such phone calls come, it is important to immediately stop the conversation!

Through the installation of third -party applications and the transition from the links of their savings lost 4 people

A resident of Yevpatoria applied to the police with a statement on the fact of fraud. He lost a considerable amount of money when he wanted to organize for friends watching a film on the big screen. A man through a group in Telegram tried to rent a hall in a cinema, but got to a phishing link, and money in the amount 116 thousand Rules left for scammers.

How to recognize a telephone scammer?

— distracts the volume of information — the calling says a lot, often complex and incomprehensible constructions, asks questions;

— Hurry to act — does not give time to think, drives, asks, as soon as possible to name the code;

— scares the consequences — The caller says that everything is bad: the money from the card leaves, the accounts are frozen. He offers a quick solution that will help to fix everything.

Be vigilant and follow the recommendations:

-Do not believe people who are representing law enforcement officers and employees of the banking sector who report that any transactions are made momentarily with your money account;

— Do not cross the unknown links that you received through instant messengers from third -party sources;

— Do not install applications on your mobile phones, which you first hear or do not have detailed information about how they work;

— Do not follow the instructions of unknown citizens trying to convince you of quickly receiving «easy» money — no one is interested in helping you enrich yourself free of charge;

If you are a victim of scammers, immediately report this to the police by a single number 102 or apply to a written statement to any nearest police department.

Source: press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Republic of Crimea