In the period from January 13 to January 19, 32 citizens became victims of remote scammers in Crimea

• calls / calls in instant messengers (Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber) on behalf of bank employees, law enforcement agencies, the online portal “State Services”, cellular operators;
• “safe” account;
• buying and selling goods on free classifieds services;
• false brokerage, investments, extra income

Scammed through CALLS 16 citizens

Crimean police recommends not following instructions received as a result of a telephone conversation. If you have doubts about the caller’s integrity, it is better to end the call and call back to the bank or mobile operator’s phone number (depending on who the “interlocutor” introduced himself to be).

A resident of Yalta fell for one of the popular schemes used by scammers. The callers, on behalf of law enforcement agencies, convinced the woman that unauthorized debits were being made from her account — she urgently needed to send her savings to a “safe” account. Rushing and intimidating the applicant, the interlocutors convinced her to transfer 250 thousand rubles Later, the victim realized that she did not know the password to her personal banking account. The phone numbers the woman used to communicate were unavailable.

13 calls were carried out through instant messengers (Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber)

A resident of the village of Chernomorskoye also fell for the “Safe Account” scheme. Believing an imaginary law enforcement officer who called the applicant in the WhatsApp messenger, the man, “saving” the money, transferred it to the scammers’ “safe” account 1 million 600 thousand rubles.

A resident of Yalta received a call via WhatsApp from an alleged representative of a trading company with an offer to make money on investments. The woman agreed and for a month transferred money through a free payment system to the numbers from which she received calls. However, the promised income never arrived on the applicant’s card, and the subscriber stopped communicating. Then the woman realized that she had translated more 2 million 350 thousand rubles to scammers.

A similar incident occurred in the Dzhankoy district, where on the eve of the New Year, a scammer, also via WhatsApp, offered a local resident to make money on cryptocurrency. Believing him, the woman transferred him more than 1 million 600 thousand rubles.

How to recognize a scammer?

– the caller talks a lot, often in complex and incomprehensible constructions, asks questions – distracts with volume of information;

– doesn’t give you time to think, pushes you, asks you to name the code as soon as possible – hurries to act;

– the caller says that everything is bad: the money is leaving the card, the accounts are frozen. He offers a quick solution that will help fix everything — frightens with consequences.

For any suspicious calls — hang up the phone!!!

15 citizens were deceived through INTERNET SITES, SOCIAL NETWORKS, MESSENGERS

An unknown person wrote to a resident of Feodosia in the WhatsApp messenger, introducing himself as the director of the exchange and offering to make money on the financial market. The man agreed and sent more than800 thousand rubles. After a while, when the declared income was not received on the card, the Feodosian tried to contact the so-called director, but the account had already been deleted.

A resident of the Simferopol district contacted the police with a complaint of fraud. She said that she received a message from her cousin in the Telegram messenger asking to lend money. Without hesitation, the applicant sent to the specified details 15 thousand rublesand then found out that my sister’s account was hacked by attackers

Via FOLLOWING LINKS 1 citizen fell for scammers’ tricks

Do not follow links on the Internet. Do not install unknown applications on your mobile phone.

A resident of Yevpatoria posted an advertisement on one of the websites for the sale of a gasoline generator. One day an unknown person wrote to him, wishing to purchase a product. Under the pretext of transferring funds, the “buyer” sent the applicant a link, arguing that in this way he would be able to transfer funds. Suspecting nothing, the man followed the link and entered his bank card details, after which he received an SMS notification about the debit more than 99 thousand rubles.

source: press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea