Krasnoyarsk teacher gave 6.3 million to scammers after a message from the “director” of the school about an FSB inspection

A 57-year-old teacher from Krasnoyarsk became a victim of telephone scammers – under the pretext of saving her from a criminal case, they cynically defrauded her of more than 6.3 million rubles.

It was established that in August, in the Telegram messenger, a message was sent to the victim’s phone, allegedly from the director of the school where she works, which stated that employees of the education department were called for a conversation with the FSB, where they presented a list of teachers involved in extremist activities, and among them allegedly was the woman’s name.

“To carry out the check, the “director” told her to answer all the questions of the “FSB officer,” who soon got in touch and reported shocking news: the pensioner’s personal data was used to transfer money to finance an unfriendly country, and these actions are regarded as extremist. “You face criminal liability, your reputation will be destroyed, you can forget about leadership positions,” the scammer put pressure on the woman. Having succumbed to persuasion and believing in the reality of the threats, the victim agreed to “help” from the state. She was transferred to another false specialist – an employee of Rosfinmonitoring, who colorfully described a scheme for the “safe transfer” of all savings to a “single state account” and convinced her to do this,” the prosecutor’s office said.

Acting on the instructions of the scammers, the woman withdrew cash over the course of a month and transferred it through ATMs to dozens of different accounts of so-called “insurance partners.” When her own savings ran out, the attackers reported that an untraceable loan of 1 million rubles had allegedly been issued in her name. To “pay off” it, the woman took out three more loans from different banks for a total of 1.3 million rubles and also transferred this money. Then the teacher was told thather “inspector died during an operation” and to work with a new “specialist” she must pay another 125 thousand rubles and a “tax” of 110 thousand rubles to reactivate the account. Only after this did the woman suspect something was wrong and turned to the real school director, who was not involved in what was happening.

“I knew about the methods of fraud, but I cannot explain why I trusted unknown persons,” the victim said.

A criminal case has been opened regarding fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), and an investigation is underway.

As the prosecutor's office said, over the past week alone, more than 40 million rubles were stolen remotely from 178 residents of the Krasnoyarsk Territory: in 9 cases, citizens became victims of fake crypto exchanges; 45 – phishing links to online stores; 48 people were under the influence of false employees of special services and organizations that saved “well-being”; in 76 cases, victims on the Internet fell for the tricks of unidentified persons through deception.

In total Since the beginning of 2025, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Internet criminals have been able to deceive 7,321 people for a total amount of 2,092,752,062 rubles. The clearance rate for these crimes is 26.7% (1268 solved). 618 criminal cases of theft using information and telecommunication technologies were sent to the regional courts.