March 19 12:05
In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a 36-year-old resident of Norilsk became a victim of deception by telephone scammers and lost five million rubles. This was reported to the police.
The victim said that she was waiting for a package from the marketplace when she allegedly received a call from a delivery service employee and said that due to the system being overloaded, some of the goods would be delivered separately, but she needed to provide her personal information. The trusting woman gave her SNILS number, after which the interlocutor threatened her with loans and ended the conversation.
“Then the woman received a call from unknown people and was informed that she was trying to log into her State Services account. During a conversation with a “specialist,” the victim filled out an application, after which she began to receive new calls, during which she was asked for information about property and accounts. The final stage in the scheme was a call from a fake employee of the Central Bank: the northern woman had to apply for as many loans as possible and send them to the “bank” in order to increase her credit rating and protect her funds from being transferred to the accounts of prohibited organizations. Under pressure from scammers, the applicant obtained loans for more than 3.6 million rubles, sold her jewelry, and also signed agreements with eight microfinance organizations,” the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.
Based on this fact, a criminal case was opened under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale”, an investigation is underway.
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