Over the past week, more than eighty citizens have become victims of online scammers in Crimea

CrimeaPRESS reports:

From September 18 to 24, 81 reports of remote fraud were registered in Crimea. The attackers managed to enrich themselves at the expense of gullible citizens in the amount of 25 million 657 thousand 963 rubles.

CALLS via Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber messengers, including with the logo of one of the leading banks in Crimea.

Over the past week, 41 such crimes using telephone calls were registered. People, believing in the plausible stories of scammers, gave them 22 million 63 thousand and 897 rubles— reported the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Crimea.

A man contacted the Simferopol police. He said that he received a call from an unknown person who introduced himself as a law enforcement officer. Under the pretext of protecting money, the applicant transferred 9 million 518 thousand rubles to an unknown person.

A resident of Simferopol, after a scammer called him, lost money in the amount of 3 million 900 thousand rubles. An unknown person called the man through a popular messenger and introduced himself as an employee of one of the banks. The false employee convinced the applicant that his bank account was under threat of hacking by unknown persons who intended to withdraw funds. The victim, who was in a confused state, was offered, under the pretext of protecting funds, to make a transfer to a supposedly safe account.

A local resident contacted one of the Simferopol police departments. She said that her phone received calls from unknown people who introduced themselves as bank employees. Under the pretext of saving funds, the woman transferred 3 million 600 thousand rubles to a supposedly safe account.

Also, citizens who receive calls from unknown persons fall for the tricks of scammers and, using other life situations, defraud their victims of large sums of money.

INTERNET SITES, SOCIAL NETWORKS.

37 cases of fraudulent activity related to the use of social networks, instant messengers and Internet sites, as a result of which citizens lost 2 million 598 thousand 727 rublesnoted the Crimean police.

The scammers received the maximum amount of money in this category from a woman who contacted the Razdolnensky district police. She said that she received an offer for additional income on a social network. Believing in the possibility of making an easy profit, the applicant transferred more than 400 thousand rubles to the unknown person.

A resident of Simferopol contacted the city police department after he transferred more than 300 thousand rubles to an unknown account under the pretext of exchanging money for foreign currency on one of the Internet sites.

A man contacted the Simferopol police and said that on one of the trading platforms he became interested in a profitable application for selling a car. When the applicant transferred more than 200 thousand rubles to an unknown person as collateral, the seller stopped communicating.

INSTALLING THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS AND FOLLOWING LINKS.

More than 900 thousand rubles disappeared from the victims’ accounts after downloading third-party applications to mobile devices and by following links from unknown sources (3 facts).

A man contacted the Simferopol police duty station. He said that under the pretext of making money on the stock exchange, an unknown person offered to install the application, after which more than 900 thousand rubles disappeared from the applicant’s account.

A resident of Simferopol contacted the police after he received an offer to earn money in one of the messengers. In order to earn extra money, the man followed unknown links sent to him by the attackers, after which more than 8 thousand rubles were debited from his bank account.

The police once again reminds:

You should never rush to make decisions regarding money. Remember, the safety of your financial assets depends only on you, and only you can decide how to ensure their safety.

Be vigilant and follow the recommendations:

— do not tell anyone your bank card details and 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 with your money account at the moment;
— do not follow links unknown to you that have been sent to you via messengers from third-party sources;
— do not install applications on your mobile phones that you are hearing 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 trying to convince you of quick “easy” money — no one is interested in enriching you for free;
— do not give your bank card to strangers.

If you have become a victim of scammers, immediately report it to the police using the single number 102 or submit a written statement to any nearest police department, or through the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Crimea.

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