On the territory of the Republic of Crimea, 68 citizens became victims of distance fraudsters

-calls / calls in instant messengers (telegrams, votsap) on behalf of communication operators, bank employees, law enforcement agencies, the online portal «State Services»;

— “safe” account;

— hacking of accounts on social networks and instant messengers;

— purchase and sale of goods on free ads;

— False Restraint;

— Investments in the company’s shares.

ATTENTION! The police resemble!

Fraudsters call through messengers (Watsap, Telegram) on the video. A person in uniform, creating the appearance of a representative of the law enforcement officer of the bodies, reports that your money, under various pretexts, must be urgently transferred to a non -existent “safe score”.

Remember! There are no safe accounts!

Through the calls 24 citizen

A resident of Alushta appealed to the police with a statement, saying that he had lost a large amount of money after a telephone conversation with the representative of the bank. The caller warned the young man that someone was trying to access his account. During the conversation, the Banking Worker found out that the Alushtin has a large amount of money from the sale of the apartment, and convinced him to secure the score. The False Worker proposed the best way: transfer money to cryptocurrency and put in a crypto -coolant. The guy followed the instructions of the «specialist» and translated more than 6 million On the cryptocurrency «safe score», having forever parted with your money.

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).

Two similar statements about fraud came from residents of the Crimean capital. According to the victims, the day before they were called unknown who introduced themselves to law enforcement officers. Pensioners were scared by the fact that from their accounts there were attempts to transfer money to the territory of a hostile state, for which they can be prosecuted. In order to avoid this and save their savings at the hands of scammers, women were offered to urgently cash out their bank accounts, and transfer all the money to a dictated “safe account”. According to the callers, this will help to deprive scammers of the opportunity to use their data again. The victims followed the instructions of the false guardians and transferred more than 2 million rubles each through the ATM to unknown accounts.

15 From the indicated number of calls were carried out through instant messengers (telegrams, VOTSAP) of which two elderly citizens became victims:

A 78-year-old resident of Simferopol filed a statement to the police. On the eve of the Telegram messenger, an unknown person called, who, introducing himself as an employee of law enforcement agencies, said that a woman’s car was auctioned. If the owner intends to save her vehicle, then she urgently needs to re -register the ownership of him and sell. The «law enforcement officer» promised information assistance and remote support of the entire procedure. In an effort to preserve her property, the woman handed over to the unknown person who played the role of the courier, 750 thousand rubles.

A 70-year-old resident of one of the villages of Simferopol district was called an “employee of a large financial company” with a proposal to earn on investing. The gullible pensioner, acting at the direction of the “experienced broker”, provided remote access to her personal data through the phone. Then, from her account more were deducted 252 thousand rubles. Only after the connection with the opponent was interrupted, the woman realized that she became a victim of a fraudster.

Remember! Law enforcement officers do not call on video communications in instant messengers! There are no safe accounts

How to recognize a 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.

Via Internet sites, social networks, messengers

To the tricks of scammers who use social networks, messengers and Internet sites came across 41 citizen.

A resident of Alushta, who was trying to buy spare parts for his car, was caught in the trick of scammers, who was trying to buy free ads on the site. Among the many proposals for the sale of a gearbox at the BMW, the woman found, as it seemed to her, the most profitable. She wrote to the seller who translated their further communication from the official website to the VOTSAP messenger. Having coordinated all the conditions for the purchase and delivery of the goods, the trusting motorist immediately carried out the money transfer to the account indicated by the false salesman in the amount of about 70 thousand rubles. However, after a while she realized that the money had gone to the fraudster.

A resident of the Simferopol district told police officers that he received a message from the unknown person to the Telegram messenger, who offered a method of rapid enrichment with the help of investment in cryptocurrency. Having responded to such a proposal, the guy did not imagine that he would not only not increase his savings, but also lose everything that he could accumulate earlier. Sending money in the amount of more 80 thousand rubles On the bank card number indicated by the unknown number, the guy only after a while realized that the money was the property of the fraudster.

Through the installation of third -party applications and the click on links

3 The citizen came to the tricks of scammers — they crossed the links from an unknown source and established harmful applications.

A resident of the city of Feodosia, turning to the police for help, said that he had lost money while trying to purchase goods on an ad.

On one of the sites of free ads, he found a game designer worth more than 5 thousand rubles. After he wrote on the site a message about his intention to buy a product on the site, a message came to the messenger from an unknown subscriber who said that payment for the goods can be made under attached link. The guy made a click on the link where he introduced the details of his bank card in the window that opened, after which funds were credited from the account. However, he never received the goods, and the false seller stopped in touch with him.

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

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