Five Sevastopolites transferred more than 100 thousand rubles to fraudsters

So, wanting to purchase a desk and chair, a 34-year-old woman, having trusted unknown, made full payment for the goods in the amount of more than 18 thousand rubles, but never received her order. The second victim of such deception was a 37-year-old local resident who looked at children’s things on one of the channels in the messenger and gave the scammers almost 20 thousand rubles. The third victim from this scheme was a 34-year-old man who wants to buy a wood-processing machine for 35 thousand rubles.

The police of Sevastopol resembles The fact that when choosing a product on the Internet, it is necessary to check the seller’s business reputation and refuse to pay funds before receiving the desired goods. Too low price for the goods should be alert, as well as the overestimated excitement around the goods.

Two more facts of fraud occurred under the pretext of a loan of funds on behalf of friends. The criminals wrote a 61-year-old woman in one of the messengers on behalf of a friend with a request to help in a difficult situation and urgently lend 20 thousand rubles. The pensioner did not suspect anything wrong and sent personal accumulations to the bank account indicated by the “acquaintances”. Later it turned out that the attackers hacked the girlfriend’s account. Also, a 38-year-old resident of the hero city believed in such a trick and transferred 10 thousand rubles to fraudsters.

In order not to become a victim of this type of deception, one should not rush to carry out money operations. Upon receipt of requests to borrow money on social networks and instant messengers, you need to contact the person from whom the message came from the phone, ask him questions, the answers to which he can only know in order to make sure that you are not talking to the fraudster.

According to these facts, employees of the internal affairs bodies have been instituted criminal cases under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud” and all necessary measures aimed at disclosing crimes are taken.

Remember: your vigilance is the main protection against scammers. Do not succumb to scammers and always check the information before performing financial transactions. If you have suffered from a crime, then you must immediately contact the nearest territorial division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia or report this by calling 102.

Source: press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Sevastopol