In Krasnoyarsk, a young courier of scammers gave the police money and jewelry worth 2 million rubles (video)

Thanks to the vigilance of a 19-year-old Krasnoyarsk resident, police prevented the theft of money and jewelry, which became the target of a complex fraudulent scheme.

It was established that the young man allegedly received a call from a representative of the cellular company and, under the pretext of extending the contract for a SIM card, lured him out of an SMS code. He was then contacted by fake law enforcement officials who claimed that his accounts had been hacked and that a criminal organization was being financed in his name. In order to “avoid responsibility for complicity” and “help the state catch the attackers,” the guy was assigned the role of a courier. He was told to meet another “participant in the operation,” a 16-year-old teenager, at the cafe, give the code word and pick up the bag.

“The 19-year-old Krasnoyarsk resident followed the instructions, constantly staying in touch with the scammers. Having received instructions to exchange the contents of the bag for rubles and transfer it to a “safe account,” he suspected something was wrong and, noticing a traffic police patrol car on the road, turned to the employees and told about what had happened. The police department found out that the bag contained more than 492 thousand rubles in foreign currency and gold jewelry worth 1.5 million rubles. Investigators established that the second participant in the scheme, a 16-year-old Krasnoyarsk resident, was also intimidated by the scammers over the phone and convinced to secretly take valuables from his parents’ safe for “protection against theft,” said the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Police officers returned all the money and gold saved from the scammers to the teenager’s parents.

On the fact of fraud, a criminal case was initiated under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the organizers of the crime are identified.

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