For three days in Sevastopol, scammers “heated” four women for more than 5.5 million rubles

So, a 69-year-old pensioner, an unknown person called, introduced himself as an employee of Rosfinmonitoring and said that her savings were in danger. Following the instructions of the swindler, the woman lost 3.7 million rubles. A 61-year-old local resident fell on the same hook, who trusted the false employee of the public services portal and transferred 1 million rubles to “safe accounts”. Once on the same networks, the 71-year-old pensioner gave fraudsters 637 thousand rubles, and a 41-year-old teacher, following similar instructions, lost 200 thousand rubles,-voiced the details of fraud stories in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Sevastopol.

Sevastopol police reminds That these employees of banks, state departments and law enforcement agencies never ask to transfer money to “safe accounts” and do not require reporting cards, SMS codes or passwords from online banking. If you are called with similar requirements — these are scammers! In such cases, you should immediately stop the conversation and independently call back to the official support of the bank or state institutions by the number indicated on their website.

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