An elderly Krasnoyarsk resident lost his money because of scammers and took 4 million rubles from another pensioner (video)

In Krasnoyarsk, scammers defrauded a pensioner of more than 6 million rubles, and then used him twice as a courier. This was reported in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region.

In mid-March, the police duty station received a message from an elderly Krasnoyarsk resident. According to him, he handed over 4 million rubles to the scammers.

During operational search activities, law enforcement officers identified the man to whom the victim handed over the money. He turned out to be a pensioner who also became a victim of deception and lost 6 million 400 thousand rubles.

“As the police found out, in February representatives of supposedly law enforcement agencies and financial organizations contacted the Krasnoyarsk resident. They reported that a large transfer was made on his behalf to another country; in order to carry out the verification, it is necessary to transfer to them all available funds, which will be returned. The misled pensioner withdrew more than 6 million rubles from his bank account and transferred them,” the regional police clarified.

Later, under the pretext of speeding up the return of money, the scammers convinced the Krasnoyarsk resident to go to the same address twice and collect 2.5 million and 1.5 million rubles from another pensioner. Until recently, the elderly man was convinced that he was assisting law enforcement agencies, and the money was being transferred for safekeeping to the Central Bank.

Currently, law enforcement officers are establishing all the circumstances of the incident and the persons involved in the crime. Based on this fact, a criminal case was initiated under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud”.

Police officers remind you: you must immediately end the conversation if the caller introduces himself as a law enforcement officer or bank officer, and also offers to transfer or transfer money to other persons.

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