«Light» money: During the week, cyberfires were enriched at the expense of Crimeans by more than 23.5 million rubles

— calls / calls in instant messengers (telegrams, votsap) on behalf of communication operators, bank employees, law enforcement agencies;

— “safe” account;

— Your relative got into an accident;

— purchase and sale of goods on free ads;

— Investments in the company’s shares.

30 citizens are deceived through calls

The Crimean police strongly recommend that you do not follow the instructions received as a result of a telephone conversation. In case of doubt about the conscientiousness of the caller, it is better to complete the call and call back the bank’s phone number or mobile operator (depending on who the interlocutor introduced himself).

The resident of Yalta received calls from an unknown person who imposed a law enforcement officer. The caller told the Crimean woman that suspicious activity was recorded on her account, in connection with which she was suspected of financing the armed forces of a neighboring state. A frightened woman, acting under the guidance of scammers, translated more than 2.2 million rubles on the false consolidated consolidated guidance to the «safe» account.

Another Yaltinka appealed to the police with a statement and said that in the Telegram messenger she received a call from an unknown person who introduced herself as an employee of law enforcement agencies. The caller told the woman that someone was trying to access her account and abduct the money available there. Using the excited state of his interlocutor, the attacker dictated the details of the supposedly “safe account”, where it was necessary to transfer money. Wanting to preserve her savings, the pensioner translated more than 1.2 million rubles.

A resident of the Simferopol district lost 1.1 million rubles, believing in quick earnings on the exchange, which scammers offered him.

16 The calls were made according to the scheme «Your relative got into an accident»

Attackers call older citizens and are submitted by law enforcement officers, medical workers, investigators, lawyers or even family members. He convinces the pensioners that their relatives were in a terrible car accident or became the perpetrators, and in order to help them, it is necessary to transfer money to the authorized person.

Thus more than 8.5 million The residents of the peninsula transferred rubles, wanting to help their friends and relatives.

The police calls for citizens to be vigilant and be sure to tell relatives and friends of an advanced age about the existence of such fraudulent schemes. When such phone calls come, it is important to immediately stop the conversation!

Through Internet sites, social networks and messengers, 24 people are deceived

A resident of Yalta received an attractive proposal for salary with respectable income through cryptocurrency trading in the WhatsApp messenger. Believing in the possibility of easy profit, he sent an account to the account indicated in the message more than 3.4 million rubles, but I never saw the profit, it was not possible to return my money.

An unknown person who introduced himself as a sales manager on the Internet contacted a resident of Kerch. The man promised to help the applicant to benefit from the sale of advertising of various products through telegrams. More than 105 thousand rubles transferred for the provision of the service, but she never received the promised benefit.

Through the installation of third -party applications and the transition from the links of their savings lost 5 citizens

A resident of the Kirovsky district turned to the police, saying that the unknown person, under the pretext of buying her children’s car, took over more than 60 thousand rubleswhich were written off after the woman entered the data of her card on the link provided.

A resident of the Crimean capital appealed to the police with a statement of fraud. The man told the employees that his account in the Telegram messenger was hacked and later the unknown person contacted him under the pretext of helping in the restoration of the account. The “Assistant” sent the applicant a link, moving around which 18.5 thousand rubles were written off from the man’s account.

Remember! Law enforcement officers do not call by messengers! There are no safe accounts!

How to recognize a telephone scammer?

— distracts the volume of information — the calling says a lot, often complex and incomprehensible constructions, asks questions;

— Hurry to act — does not give time to think, drives, asks, as soon as possible to name the code;

— scares the consequences — The caller says that everything is bad: the money from the card leaves, the accounts are frozen. He offers a quick solution that will help to fix everything.

Be vigilant and follow the recommendations:

-Do not believe people who are representing law enforcement officers and employees of the banking sector who report that any transactions are made momentarily with your money account;

— Do not cross the unknown links that you received through instant messengers from third -party sources;

— Do not install applications on your mobile phones, which you first hear or do not have detailed information about how they work;

— Do not follow the instructions of unknown citizens trying to convince you of quickly receiving «easy» money — no one is interested in helping you enrich yourself free of charge;

If you are a victim of scammers, immediately report this to the police by a single number 102 or apply to a written statement to any nearest police department.

Source: press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Republic of Crimea