Fraudsters lured from 143 residents of the Krasnoyarsk Territory more than 57 million rubles

Fraudsters lured from 143 residents of the Krasnoyarsk Territory more than 57 million rubles

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in a week, scammers deceived 143 people and lured them more than 57 million rubles, the prosecutor’s office said.

According to the statistics, which is given by the department, in 10 cases, people gave money to earn money on the crypto officer, 32 became victims of false workers, and 12 believed the reports from “friends” in social networks with a request to borrow money, 21 residents of the region lost money, entrusting with a phishing link on the site, and in 68 cases, people fell on the tricks of deceivers from the Internet.

Since the beginning of the year, the attackers managed to deceive 6972 residents of the region, the damage caused is approaching 2 billion rubles. At the same time, only 1180 crimes were disclosed (the percentage of disclosure is 26.4%). The courts took 563 criminal cases.

The prosecutor’s office told about the next indicative case-the scammers managed to intimidate the 87-year-old pensioner from Zheleznogorsk. Fraudsters called her on a stationary phone and introduced themselves to Rostelecom's employees. The woman believed in the need to change the equipment and renegotiation of the contract and transmitted passport data.

A few hours later, the pensioner called the “law enforcement officer”. He said that the grandmother handed the data to fraudsters who are suspected of sponsoring terrorism. To convince the iron corner, the attacker called her in the video. The man was in shape and in an office, similar to service. He said that a criminal case of a state reception was opened against a pensioner and a confiscation of property awaits her, but he can help “protect” the savings.

“The frightened pensioner has completely obeyed the requirements of scammers. Under their distance management, applications were remotely installed on her phone. In a week, the woman made at least nine transfers through ATMs in Zheleznogorsk, Sosnovoborsk and Krasnoyarsk. The total amount of losses amounted to 7 million rubles. This money was her savings in his entire life, including the inheritance from relatives and insurance payments. The cynicity of the scam is aggravated by the fact that one of the days scammers forced the pensioner to act as a courier: she transferred 400 thousand rubles to another elderly woman in Sosnovoborsk, who also became a victim of the same criminal scheme, ”the press service said and said that a criminal case of fraud was instituted (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The victim of the fraudster herself explained that she had heard about different types of crimes, but everything looked very believable. Therefore, she believed in deceit and was sure that she could be held accountable for the Stateizer.