I wanted quick and big earnings: another courier of remote scammers was detained in Sevastopol

Almost immediately after coming of age, the young man decided to move out from his mother, rented an apartment in Simferopol and began looking for a job, preferably with large and quick earnings, but without unnecessary energy costs.

It was then, by a “lucky” coincidence, that the manager of a certain company wrote to him and offered to work as a courier. The so-called curator explained that the young man would have to go to the address indicated to him and pick up “parcels” (envelopes, packages and other “bags” with money) from people. Without thinking twice, our hero agreed. Then preparations for the “work” began: the curator sent him a file with a bank card, which the guy downloaded to his phone, and a PIN code for it, explained all the nuances and subtleties and told him to wait for the task.

A few days later the first “order” arrived. The young man got ready and went to the specified address in Sevastopol. A 95-year-old woman was already waiting for him there; a few hours before this meeting, remote scammers convinced her: “Your daughter was in an accident, she urgently needs money!” The attackers’ courier took more than 230 thousand rubles, drove to an ATM and, using an NFC module and a downloaded unknown bank card, transferred them to the details specified by the curator in the chat.

A few days later, he received another “task” in Sevastopol, this time he had to pick up “parcels” with money from two local residents at once: three million rubles from an 89-year-old pensioner and 400 thousand from an 87-year-old man. The young man managed to transfer part of the money using an ATM to details unknown to him, and the curator ordered the rest — about a million rubles — to be taken to Taganrog. However, already on the way, the plan changed and he was told to leave a bag of cash under a tree (coordinates were sent) in Krasnodar.

Upon his return to Crimea, he was detained by employees of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Sevastopol. The suspect admitted guilt and repented. Investigators established that in 10 days of “work” he earned about 400 thousand rubles, taking 10% of each “delivery” for himself.

In relation to the enterprising young man, employees of the Special Investigation Department of the Department of Internal Affairs in the Gagarinsky district opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud”. For aiding swindlers, he faces up to 10 years in prison.

source: press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Sevastopol