In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the widow of a SVO participant gave 14.5 million rubles to scammers

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, swindlers deceived the widow of a SVO participant, accusing her of having ties with an unfriendly country, the prosecutor’s office said.

The woman lives in the Bolshemurtinsko-Sukhobuzimsky municipal district. In September 2025, she received a call from a man who introduced himself as an employee of an energy company and, under the pretext of replacing the meter, lured the woman out of her account code on the government services portal.

The woman was hooked by the criminals and, having received a message about an allegedly suspicious login to the portal, called the phone number provided by the scammers. There, a “security officer” began communicating with her. The man said that a power of attorney had been issued on her behalf for a citizen of an unfriendly country. The woman went into the application and actually saw this document there

“Next, a “specialist from Rosfinmonitoring” stepped into the matter, to whom the widow informed about the imminent receipt of payments in connection with the death of her husband. The fraudster promised to secure the funds, but this required permission from the “FSB representative.” Soon, the woman received a video call from a man in uniform sitting against the background of a flag. He stated that because of the executed power of attorney, she faces problems with the law, and all the money must be urgently transferred to special accounts for verification in order to prove that it is not used to finance prohibited organizations. Fearing criminal liability, the woman agreed to cooperate,” the prosecutor’s office said.

For six months the woman was under the full control of her curator. He wrote to her daily in messengers, asked about her well-being and gave clear instructions.

“Under the dictation of the attacker, she downloaded the fake Central Bank application, where her personal data had already been entered, and deposited funds into the so-called “safe account” through ATMs of various credit institutions. The total amount of damage amounted to 14.5 million rubles. When the “curator” stopped communicating in March 2026 and the application was blocked, the woman realized that she had become a victim of deception,” the press service said.

A criminal case was opened under the article “Fraud” (Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

In total, in the first three months of 2026 in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, scammers deceived 1,467 residents of the region. The damage they caused exceeded 571 million rubles. Only 300 crimes (25.3%) were solved; 182 cases of theft were referred to the courts.

Over the course of a week, 145 residents of the region fell for the scammers’ tricks, receiving 109 million rubles from them.