Sevastopol police warns: in the city there are «intercom» scammers

In the afternoon, a stranger called a man through the messenger and, impersoning the representative of the company for servicing apartment buildings, distracting attention with the conversation. Under the pretext of “voting” for the installation of equipment on the entrance door, he asked to dictate the received SMS code. After that, an accomplice of the remote swindler was communicated with the victim, introduced himself as an employee of the bank security service, said that confidential data fell into the hands of attackers, and supposedly to prevent theft, it was necessary to transfer all the money to a “safe” account. To “save savings”, a fan of easy profit asked the pensioner his bank card number. As a result, acting under the dictation of criminals, the victim lost more than 120 thousand rubles. Currently, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Leninsky district are taking all the necessary measures aimed at disclosing the crime,-the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Sevastopol said.

In order to counteract the above fraudulent scheme, the police of Sevastopol recalls that real services of the services sector, representatives of financial institutions, as well as officials of the tax office, social fund, government portal, are not interested in SMS codes, and law enforcement officers do not carry out investigative actions by telephone and, moreover Accumulations for «safe» accounts.

Remember that in the arsenal of lovers to profit from someone else’s expense can be not only information about citizens, professional terminology, fake documents and a person’s image in uniforms, but even technical means that allow you to imitate the voice of a relative or the head of a potential victim.

In order not to “die all overwhelmed with overwhelming work”, the receipt of such calls must be immediately disrupted by the criminal performance, immediately interrupting the conversation with fraudsters and contact 102.

Source: press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Sevastopol