June 21 13:50
In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the child transferred almost 3 million rubles to fraudsters. He thought he was saving his family from arrest. This was told in the prosecutor's office of the region.
At the end of May 2025, scammers began to attack the child. The unknown person through calls to the messenger demanded “confirm the account”, intimidating the school director with the name of the school director. The boy informed the SMS code swindler.
Then a false officer of the “State Services” called the teenager. She said that his parents were stolen. Then the “financial control” and “law enforcement officer” contacted the child. The latter shocked the child with the news that his parents “finance terrorism” and threatened with immediate arrest.
Fraudsters insisted on a “remote search” on the video. A fake specialist forced the child to go around the whole apartment with the phone while he was at home alone.
In the following days, scammers through the messenger demanded to “declare” the funds of the parents. They learned about a large amount from the sale of family property.
After a couple of days, the teenager took the phones of his parents under the pretext of “webinar”. According to the instructions, the boy installed biometric access to the devices and transferred all the family savings to the indicated details.
When the student’s mother began to worry, the fraudster advised the teenager to escape from home and hide. The boy completed this. He continued to transfer money. In parallel, the scammers remotely issued a loan and forced to send money allegedly to repay.
Parents called real law enforcement officers. When the child returned home, he found out that he was a victim of scammers. A criminal case of fraud has been instituted (Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
Links on the topic:
- In Krasnoyarsk, vigilant employees of the bank saved grandmother from scammers
- Over the past week, residents of the Krasnoyarsk Territory “gave” 24 million rubles to fraudsters
