in Krasnoyarsk, a college student gave 18 million rubles of family savings to scammers / Incidents of Krasnoyarsk and the Krasnoyarsk Territory / Newslab.Ru
30 May 13:33
In Krasnoyarsk, scammers used a classic deception scheme to intimidate a girl, after which she gave them a large sum.
According to the regional prosecutor's office, in early May 2026, a 19-year-old first-year student at the Krasnoyarsk College of Finance and Economics received a call from a man who introduced himself as a courier delivery employee. He said that she had received a package and asked her to give her the code from the SMS “for access.” The girl dictated the code, after which her personal account at State Services was hacked.
Since the beginning of 2026, 2,357 residents of the Krasnoyarsk Territory have become victims of Internet criminals. Damage caused—RUB 992.5 million. 533 crimes were solved – 23.9%. 299 criminal cases were sent to the regional courts.
Almost immediately other “employees” began to contact her – Gosuslug, FSB, Rosfinmonitoring. They said that the scammers had issued a power of attorney for the girl, and she could now “manage other people’s accounts” and even “sponsor terrorists.”
The student was told that she could be prosecuted for extremism if she did not help the “investigation.” To avoid punishment, she was told not to say anything to anyone, to be constantly in touch, to record videos, to follow all commands and not to discuss the conversation even with relatives.
The scammers convinced the girl that an account with 3 million rubles was allegedly opened in her name, belonging to a certain citizen who “lost” this money and turned to law enforcement. To “prove her innocence,” she was ordered to search her grandmother’s apartment and “take out the funds for inspection.”
“Following the instructions, the student found the family’s savings under her grandmother’s bed – 24,000 euros, 170,000 dollars and 2,735,000 rubles, a total of about 18 million rubles. The girl took a photo of the package, brought it home and, as directed, went outside. In the morning she met a young man, he called the code “Motherland”, the girl gave him a bag of money and received a certain document. After that, they separated,” police said.
The next day, the scammers demanded that we double-check the money with our parents in Bratsk and buy counterfeit bills to replace the lost ones. Only after this the girl decided to check the information on the Internet, discovered that such an employee did not exist, and realized that she had been deceived.
A criminal case was opened for fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
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