Over the past 24 hours, Sevastopol residents have given over 4.5 million rubles to scammers

It should be noted that women are most often the victims of remote attackers.

• under the pretext of investment

The victim of this scheme was an 81-year-old pensioner who, following the instructions of the fraudsters, installed a third-party application on her mobile phone and, over the course of a week, transferred 2.4 million rubles via Internet banking to accounts controlled by the criminals.

Having not received the promised profit and having lost all her savings, the victim filed a complaint with the police.

Dear citizens! Offers of quick and guaranteed earnings through investment are fraud! Citizens, explain to your elderly relatives that such dubious attempts to obtain passive income will inevitably lead to the loss of large sums.

• under the pretext of protecting money in a bank account

The victims of this fraudulent scheme were a 67-year-old pensioner, a 57-year-old school teacher and a 37-year-old self-employed woman.

In the first case, a fraudster called an elderly woman, introduced himself as a mobile operator and said that it was allegedly necessary to renew the contract. After the pensioner dictated the code received from the SMS, the attackers gained access to her personal account in the state services and convinced her to transfer more than 500 thousand rubles to «safe accounts».

A school teacher lost more than 1.2 million rubles when scammers called her and told her that her bank account was in danger and that the criminals were trying to take out loans in her name. The frightened woman received loans from banks totaling more than 1 million rubles and transferred them to the scammers along with her savings.

Another 37-year-old local resident lost almost 300 thousand under a similar scheme.

Dear citizens! If you are informed that your mobile phone contract is about to expire, that someone is trying to steal your money from your bank account, issue a loan in your name, or use your bank account to finance foreign terrorist organizations, do not believe them and do not follow the instructions on the phone under any circumstances. Any such messages and calls come only from scammers.

• under the pretext of a loan on behalf of a friend

The victim of this type of fraud was an 18-year-old student, who received a request to borrow 49 thousand rubles from her friend’s account on a social network. Thinking that she was helping her friend solve a financial problem, the girl transferred the requested amount. Later, she learned that her friend’s page had been hacked.

Dear citizens! Do not transfer money under any circumstances after receiving written requests on social networks and messengers. Be sure to call back yourself and make sure that it is your loved one or friend who is contacting you.

source: press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Sevastopol