CrimeaPRESS reports:
Sevastopol police warns: remote scammers continue to steal money from gullible citizens with the help of various tricks! Over the past few days, three local residents of 52, 62 and 84 years old have contacted the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who reported that they were victims of remote scammers. Note that the scammers used the old “proven” schemes: “your bank account is in danger” and “your relative got into an accident.”
It was established that the first woman in the messenger received a call from an unknown person who introduced himself as a law enforcement officer and, allegedly in order to prevent theft, convinced her to transfer her money savings to a reserve account dictated by him. The victim complied with his demands and lost 13 thousand rubles.
In the second case, the fraudster also called the woman in a messenger, introduced herself as a security officer of a regional commercial bank, and convinced her to install the AnyDesk remote access application on her smartphone. Having thus obtained access to the Internet banking of her victim, the attacker stole 100 thousand rubles.
An unknown person called the third victim on a landline phone, introduced himself as an employee of the investigating authorities and said that her son was the culprit of the accident, and a large sum was required to not bring him to criminal liability. The frightened pensioner handed over 90 thousand rubles to the courier of the scammers who arrived.
The Sevastopol police once again reminds:
Law enforcement officers or bank employees never call customers to warn about problems with a bank account, never convince them to transfer money to other accounts, and never offer to install mobile applications on their phones.
Also, law enforcement and investigative officials never demand money for not being held criminally liable — this is a serious corruption crime. This is done exclusively by remote scammers. It is worth noting that they know banking and law enforcement terminology, and may also know some information about their potential victims, for example, last name, first name, patronymic, residential address, and more.
Dear citizens! When you receive such calls, you should immediately stop talking with scammers and report the incident to the police at number 102. This is the only way you will save your money!
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