January 27 13:44
Remote scammers deceived a 16-year-old boy from the village of Berezovskoye, Krasnoyarsk Territory, on a grand scale.
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Police found that since November 2025, the teenager had been using his grandmother’s phone with her permission. During the same period of time, he received a call with an offer to enrich himself on the Internet. The boy, having fallen under the influence of scammers, installed various applications “to make money.”
The minor knew the password for the online bank of an elderly relative, as he spied on her when she entered it. Therefore, he easily went into the application and “for a down payment” of 10 thousand rubles, he issued a credit card for his grandmother.
“This turned out to be not enough: the criminals convinced the teenager to transfer money from his nominal account, where payments for the loss of a breadwinner were received, and carry out the same operation with the account of his 12-year-old brother. When the treasured amount of 11 thousand dollars was displayed in the “earning app”, the scammers reported that the money could be withdrawn. But the code sent to carry out the operation turned out to be incorrect. The remote “specialist” reassured the teenager, saying that he needed to wait a little, and the next day he said that a trusted person was needed to withdraw money. The victim contacted a relative, who explained that everything that had happened was a hoax and he needed to contact the police. However, the boy was afraid to tell his grandmother about what happened. The woman found out about the lost funds only two months later,” the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.
In total, the teenager transferred 955 thousand rubles to the scammers. Based on this fact, the issue of initiating a criminal case is being decided.
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