In Dudinka, a schoolboy gave more than 250 thousand rubles from his parents’ safe to scammers

A 17-year-old resident of Dudinka, Krasnoyarsk Territory, became a victim of remote scammers – he transferred over 250 thousand rubles to them, thinking that he was saving himself from criminal prosecution.

It was established that first an unknown person called him, introduced himself as a delivery service employee, gave the young man’s personal information and said that a package had been registered in his name, for which he needed to provide a code from an SMS. The teenager complied with the request, after which the conversation stopped. The next day, he received another call: the interlocutor reported that his personal account at Gosuslugi had been hacked and his personal data had been “leaked,” as well as the need to contact specialists at the specified phone numbers. Following this, a “Rosfinmonitoring employee” called and stated that criminals had taken possession of the guy’s personal data and had already issued a power of attorney on his behalf to carry out various operations.

“Then, via video link, strangers, posing as police officers, convinced the young man to conduct a “search” at his place of residence and find cash in order to “declare” it. To start the process, the student was switched to a fake Central Bank employee. Subsequently, the deceivers forced him to go to the store and buy a new phone in order to open a “safe account” in the bank through it. Under the dictation of the attackers, he took money from his parents’ safe, purchased a smartphone and, at the instructions of the scammers, transferred 252 thousand rubles to the specified account,” said the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and showed the correspondence between the scammers and the victim.

The boy's mother reported the crime to the police.

Based on this fact, a criminal case was opened under Part 3 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud, perfect V on a large scale,” an investigation is underway.

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