Over the past 24 hours, six Sevastopol residents became victims of scammers. Not the elderly! From 20 to 53 years old

CrimeaPRESS reports:

Over the past 24 hours, six residents of Sevastopol, aged from 20 to 53 years old, who had suffered from scammers using the most common criminal schemes, contacted the police. The total amount of money transferred to the criminals amounted to more than 750 thousand rubles.

Let us note that a relatively new scheme has worked – “extension of mobile communication services”.

A 41-year-old unemployed local resident lost the largest amount – 580 thousand rubles. A scammer called her, introduced himself as an employee of a cellular communication company, and, under the pretext of extending the contract for the services provided, convinced her to dictate the password code received via SMS to her personal account of the electronic portal. After this, the woman was called by the swindler’s accomplice, introduced himself as an employee of the Internet portal and said that her personal account had been hacked, and the scammers were trying to steal all her savings from her bank accounts. The attacker convinced the victim to transfer all her money to the accounts dictated to her.

The “bank account protection” scheme is still “working”.

A 53-year-old unemployed Sevastopol resident transferred 33 thousand rubles to the so-called “safe” account. He was convinced to do this by a fraudster who called in a messenger using the logo of a regional commercial bank.

Well, the most “popular” scheme on the last day of February in Sevastopol was “online purchase”.

Its victims were four people: a 20-year-old student who wanted to rent a house and transferred 95 thousand rubles to scammers, a 48-year-old director of a company who decided to purchase pumping equipment and transferred 30 thousand rubles to a swindler, a 31-year-old unemployed man who transferred 10 thousand rubles on account of the purchase of tobacco products and a 48-year-old woman who lost 5 thousand rubles, wanting to buy red caviar from an unverified seller.

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