In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a pensioner gave almost 7 million rubles to scammers, deceiving bank employees

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the police are investigating another remote fraud on an especially large scale – this time the victim was a 79-year-old resident Zheleznogorsk. For three weeks, he voluntarily handed over his savings to the criminals, despite persistent attempts by bank employees to stop him.

The story began on December 3. A man allegedly received a call from an acquaintance on a popular messenger and said that a law enforcement officer should contact him. When the second call came, the stranger said that transfers to an unknown person had been recorded from the pensioner’s accounts, so the Central Bank stopped all operations and now the special services are conducting an inspection. The victim, fearing criminal prosecution, gave the “curators” all the information about his savings. And when he began to doubt what was happening, the scammers sent him a “subpoena for interrogation” via messenger – this finally convinced the pensioner of the need to follow any instructions from the security forces.

“From December 3 to December 23, the man systematically cashed out funds in all banks in the city in order to transfer them to “safe accounts.” The security system repeatedly blocked suspicious transactions, and bank employees directly asked the pensioner whether he was acting under pressure from scammers. However, following the instructions of the attackers, the Zheleznogorsk resident persistently argued that he needed huge sums to buy a car and an apartment for his daughter. To be convincing, he even brought his wife to bank branches, who, believing her husband, confirmed his words. When the limits on electronic transfers were exhausted, the scammers gave the man a new task – he went to Sosnovoborsk, where he personally transferred almost 3 million rubles in cash to a stranger, whom he considered a “law enforcement officer,” the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

In total, the elderly man lost 6 million 970 thousand rubles. It was only on January 17, almost a month after the last transaction, that he realized that he had become a victim of deception and contacted the police.

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