In Krasnoyarsk, a 64-year-old pensioner believed fake employees of the FSB and Rosfinmonitoring and lost more than 5.3 million rubles.
The prosecutor's office said that at the end of September the woman received a call from the delivery service and was informed that a package had been received in her name. To be issued, she was asked to name the code from the message, and then the fake store employee said that he would now “download all her data.” The frightened woman called the police, and law enforcement officers had a preventative conversation with her.
On the same day, the woman’s phone began receiving messages about “suspicious activity” on her State Services account. She dialed the indicated number and was told that all her data had been stolen, and bank employees gave the scammers her signature to issue powers of attorney.
“My signature was given to the scammers, and they, in turn, made a power of attorney on my behalf and can now manage all my accounts,” the victim explained.
Then an employee of Rosfinmonitoring allegedly got involved and coordinated her actions through the messenger. The culmination of the pressure was a conversation with a fake FSB officer, who said that the woman could be “involved in facilitating terrorist activities” and helping the Armed Forces of Ukraine. To avoid criminal liability, she was ordered to transfer all the money to a “safe account of the Central Bank.”
Under the dictation of the scammers, the pensioner withdrew 5.3 million rubles from bank branches. – all your savings. Then she deposited cash several times a day through an ATM. Even when bank employees, fulfilling their duty, warned her about possible fraud, she, intoxicated by fear and suggestions of swindlers, did not believe them.
Realization came when the scammers, not having time to “master” the first millions, demanded to sell her dacha. Only then did the woman realize that she had become a victim of deception.
“I know about fraud literally from everywhere… However, for what reason it turned out that I was deceived, I cannot explain. Perhaps I became confused and too trusting, besides, they spoke quite convincingly,” the victim stated bitterly.
The prosecutor's office reported that since the beginning of the year, 7.4 thousand residents of the region have become victims of Internet criminals; they gave the attackers 2.146 billion rubles.
“Over the past week alone, more than 44 million rubles were stolen remotely from 130 residents of the region: in 12 cases, citizens became victims of fake crypto exchanges; 47 people were under the influence of false employees of special services and organizations who were saving “well-being”; 30 residents of the region became victims of phishing links to online stores; 8 social network users trusted messages from the accounts of friends and acquaintances who asked to borrow money; in 41 cases, victims on the Internet fell for the tricks of unidentified persons through deception. In each case, criminal cases have been initiated and investigated,” the press service explained.
