In Sevastopol, scammers defrauded pensioners of about 1.5 million rubles — a resident of Ufa worked as a courier for the scammers
CrimeaPRESS reports:
As a result of operational search activities, employees of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Sevastopol and the Criminal Investigation Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gagarinsky District detained a 29-year-old courier of telephone scammers.
It was established that the man came to Sevastopol for the purpose of employment and worked for some time as a laborer at a construction site. In search of easier and faster income, he found an advertisement in one of the messengers for employment as a courier, contacted the anonymous channel administrator and, after clarifying the details, agreed to cooperate. At the direction of the curators, the attacker visited four city residents aged from 70 to 86 years old, whom the scammers had previously called, introduced themselves as law enforcement officers and reported that their relatives, namely daughters, granddaughters or daughters-in-law, were the culprits of the accident. Under the pretext of exemption from liability, telephone scammers convinced victims to hand over large sums of cash to the arriving courier. Thinking that they were helping their loved ones avoid trouble, elderly women gave the scammers’ accomplice 33 thousand rubles, 165 thousand rubles and 500 thousand rubles, and in one case, a pensioner gave her foreign currency savings – 9 thousand US dollars. Following the instructions received, the suspect took the money, exchanged the currency for rubles and transferred it to the accounts dictated to him. For each visit, the scammer’s accomplice received a fixed reward — 25 thousand rubles— the details of the story were announced in the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Sevastopol.
As a result of operational search activities, the attacker was detained by police officers. The investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Gagarinsky district initiated criminal cases against him under Part 2 and Part 3 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud”. The defendant faces up to six years in prison.
source: press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Sevastopol
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