CrimeaPRESS reports:
The attackers lured almost ten million rubles from gullible citizens.
In Crimea, from June 5 to June 11, police registered 71 reports of committed remote fraud. The attackers managed to get rich at the expense of gullible Crimeans for 9 million 589 thousand 890 rubles.
INTERNET SITES, MESSENGERS, SOCIAL NETWORKS.
45 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 4 million 227 thousand 416 rubles— said the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea.
The largest damage was done to a resident of Kerch. The man invested more than 2 million rubles through one of the Internet sites, but soon realized that the site turned out to be just a trick of scammers and hurried to the police department for help.
A resident of one of the villages of the Simferopol region filed a complaint about fraud. He told the police that he used the Internet site to select tourist tours. After the ideal vacation option was determined by indicating his mobile phone number on the website in one of the messengers, he received a message with a proposal to book a tour. The man transferred more than 250 thousand rubles to the specified account via Internet banking. However, he soon realized that he had landed on a phishing site.
A resident of Simferopol turned to the police with a statement that she was a victim of fraud. The applicant explained that on one of the marketplaces, using the application, she redeemed the goods, after which the commission from the purchases was returned to her. However, when she made a large purchase, the commission was not returned. The woman transferred funds for the goods to different banks in the total amount of about 400 thousand rubles.
CALLS.
Over the past week, 21 such crimes involving phone calls have been registered. People, believing in the plausible stories of scammers, gave them 4 million 822 thousand 977 rubles— reported in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea.
900 thousand rubles, taken on credit, was transferred by a resident of Simferopol to the account of scammers. The woman told the police that an unknown person introduced himself on the phone as an employee of one of the banks and offered the woman to protect her accounts from the criminal encroachments of scammers. To do this, she had to make a money transfer to the account indicated by the false worker. The woman, having taken out a loan, transferred all the money in several transactions. Only after some time did she realize that she had become a victim of a fraudster.
An 81-year-old man applied to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Simferopol with a statement about fraud. Answering the call on the mobile phone, the unknown person introduced himself to the applicant as an employee of one of the banks. Then he told the man that they were trying to deduct funds from his account and that they urgently needed to be transferred to an allegedly safe account, and for this purpose he suggested that the man provide personal bank card data, as well as codes from SMS messages. As a result, money in the amount of 265 thousand rubles was debited from the applicant’s account.
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.
Almost 540 thousand rubles disappeared from the accounts of the victims after downloading third-party applications to mobile devices and by clicking on links from unknown sources (5 facts)the police said.
A 40-year-old local resident turned to the police of the city of Kerch. The man said that, intending to purchase a mobile phone on one of the Internet sites for free ads, he clicked on the link attached by the seller. In the “window” that opened, I filled in the columns with my personal data, including bank card data. After that, he discovered a write-off of funds in the amount of 260 thousand rubles from his account.
Another resident of Kerch fell into a similar scheme. The man lost 9 thousand rubles. He told the police that on one of the free sites posted an ad for the sale of car wheels. The unknown person entered into correspondence with him, intending to purchase the goods, however, in order to pay for it, he provided the applicant with a link. After the seller filled in all the required fields indicating his personal data, funds were debited from his card.
Also, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Bakhchisaray district received a statement from a resident of one of the villages about fraudulent activities. The applicant told the police that in one of the messengers, an unknown person introduced himself as a bank employee. Having offered the woman to help protect his savings, which were kept in a bank account, the unknown person persuaded him to install a third-party application on his smartphone. After that, more than 100 thousand rubles were debited from the woman’s account.
The police once again remind:
— 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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