In the Crimea for a week, 57 citizens fell for the tricks of scammers, having lost more than 8 million rubles

CrimeaPRESS reports:

From June 12 to June 18, police registered 57 reports of committed remote frauds in Crimea. The attackers managed to enrich themselves at the expense of gullible citizens in the amount of more than 8 million rubles.

INTERNET SITES, MESSENGERS, SOCIAL NETWORKS.

28 facts of fraudulent activities are associated with the use of social networks, instant messengers and Internet sites, as a result of which citizens have lost 1 million 339 thousand 330 rubles— reported in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea.

A 36-year-old resident of the Simferopol region and a 37-year-old resident of Sudak turned to the police with a statement about fraud. They told the police that they were looking for money through the Internet. In one of the messengers, they were contacted by an unknown person who offered them a job using one of the well-known marketplaces. The essence of earnings was the resale of goods at a better price. So, the woman transferred money for the goods in the amount of about 435 thousand rubles, and the man invested the amount of more than 340 thousand rubles, but realizing that the scheme did not work, and it would not be possible to return their investments, they turned to the police for help.

A resident of Feodosia turned to the police with a statement that she was a victim of fraud. The applicant explained that in one of the messengers her friend sent a message in which she said that she was in dire need of financial assistance and asked to borrow a certain amount of money. Thinking that she was communicating with her friend, the sympathetic woman transferred more than 18 thousand rubles to the specified details. As it turned out later, the page from which the applicant was written turned out to be hacked by an unknown person.

CALLS.

Over the past week, 13 such crimes involving phone calls have been registered. People, believing in the plausible stories of scammers, gave them 2 million 750 thousand 210 rublesthe police said.

The largest damage was done to a 55-year-old resident of Simferopol. The applicant told the police that he had received a call from unknown persons who introduced themselves as bank employees and law enforcement officers. The man was informed that unidentified persons had issued a loan in one of the banks in his name. In order to repay the resulting debt to the bank, he needs to take out another loan and transfer it to an account that will be dictated. As a result, the man transferred funds in the amount of more than 1.5 million rubles to an unknown account.

347 thousand rubles, taken on credit, was transferred by a 49-year-old resident of one of the villages of the Belogorsk district to the account of scammers. The man told the police that the unknown man introduced himself on the phone as an employee of one of the banks and offered to protect the accounts from the criminal encroachments of scammers. To do this, he had to make a money transfer to the account indicated by the false worker. The man, having issued a loan, transferred all the money. Only after some time did he realize that he had become a victim of a fraudster.

Also, the tricks of scammers come across citizens who are called by unknown people and, using other life situations, lure large sums of money from their victims.

INSTALLING THIRD-PARTY APPS AND FOLLOWING LINKS.

About 4 million rubles disappeared from the accounts of the victims after downloading third-party applications to mobile devices and by clicking on links from unknown sources (16 facts)— said the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea.

Residents of Feodosia and the Leninsky district became victims of telephone scammers and each lost 1 million 300 thousand rubles. The women explained to the police officers that they received calls on mobile phones from unknown persons who presented themselves as employees of the bank, as well as law enforcement agencies. When informing the applicants that fraudsters were trying to hack into their bank accounts, they were offered to install a third-party program on their mobile phones, which would supposedly help protect bank accounts from hackers. However, after installing the applications on their smartphones, the women found that all the money had been debited from their accounts. Thus, in total, the scammers got 2 million 600 thousand rubles.

A local resident turned to the police of the city of Dzhankoy. The man said that, at one of the social «flea markets» he intended to purchase a mobile phone. After the man entered his personal data and bank card data into the form provided by the seller for payment, he discovered that 30,000 rubles were debited from his account.

The police once again remind:

Never be in a hurry to make money decisions. Remember, the safety of your funds depends only on you, and only you decide how to ensure their safety.

Be vigilant and follow the recommendations:

— do not give your bank card to unauthorized persons;
— do not tell anyone the details of your bank card and its PIN code;
— do not provide any SMS codes, even to a bank employee;
— do not confirm transactions that you did not perform;
— do not believe people who introduce themselves as law enforcement officers and banking employees who report that any transactions are being made momentarily with your money account;
— do not follow links unknown to you that came to you through instant messengers from third-party sources;
— do not install on your mobile phones applications that you hear about for the first time or do not have detailed information about how they work;
— do not agree to prepayment when buying or selling property through free Internet portals;
— do not follow the instructions of unknown citizens who are trying to convince you to quickly receive «easy» money — no one is interested in enriching you for free.

If you have become a victim of scammers, immediately report it to the police at a single number 102 or apply in writing to any nearest police station, or through the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Republic of Crimea.

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