In Krasnoyarsk, scammers took 13.5 million rubles from pensioners

In Krasnoyarsk, a student from one of the universities will appear in court, accused of participating in a fraudulent scheme. This was reported to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

According to the police, in October last year, a resident of Krasnoyarsk, born in 1965, contacted the duty station. The woman said that she first received a call from an unknown person who introduced himself as a telephone company technician. He reported that old cables had been replaced with fiber optics and asked to dictate passport data, supposedly to change the subscriber number.

The next day, an imaginary representative of the security forces contacted the Krasnoyarsk woman. He stated that after transferring the data, loans for 4 million rubles were allegedly issued in her name, and the money was transferred to an unfriendly country. The woman was advised to apply for loans and transfer funds to a “safe account”, but the bank refused to give her the money. After this, the scammers informed the pensioner that her apartment had allegedly been transferred to other people. In order to return the home, the woman was convinced to sell the property and transfer the money to the “collector” for subsequent “self-purchase” from the state.

The Krasnoyarsk woman sold her apartment for 3.5 million rubles, put the money in a bag and threw it from the balcony to the courier. He took the funds and left them in the place indicated by the scammers. The police identified the courier and detained him. He turned out to be a student of one of the universities in Krasnoyarsk, born in 2006.

It also turned out that the accused took money from a resident of Zheleznogorsk twice more. The victim came to Krasnoyarsk and transferred his personal savings to him. The total amount was 10 million rubles. In total, according to investigators, the courier took 13.5 million rubles from two pensioners.

The criminal investigation into fraud has been completed. The accused was given a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions. The materials will be submitted to the court.