In Krasnoyarsk, a student gave more than 10 million rubles to scammers

In Krasnoyarsk, a 23-year-old student fell for the tricks of telephone scammers and gave them her parents’ savings in size 10.3 million rubles.

It was established that in November 2025, a false employee of Russian Post called the girl’s mobile phone and, under the pretext of receiving a letter, extracted her SMS code. Then the victim of the deception was contacted an imaginary specialist of the Central Bank and reported that the scammers who took possession of her personal data opened an account in her name and transferred money from it abroad, and also applied for loans, and now the girl faces criminal liability.

“The student, following the instructions of the attackers, withdrew 9.9 million rubles from bank deposits where her father and mother’s long-term savings were kept. Through ATMs using a fake Central Bank of the Russian Federation application, she transferred the amount to many cards indicated by the scammers, the prosecutor’s office says. — When a “Central Bank employee” asked her about the source of such large sums and the girl said that the money was from her parents, the scheme developed. The swindler ordered her to urgently go to her mother in Abakan in order to “find and save” the rest of the cash from a possible “search.” Having obeyed, the student secretly took 420 thousand rubles from her parents’ house and also transferred them to the scammers.”

When the mother called her daughter, she admitted that she had taken the money, but refused to give a reason, saying the following: “If I tell everything, then it will be bad for me and you and your father.” Only after the intervention of the girl’s young man, who suspected something was wrong, did she realize that she had fallen under the influence of criminals and turned to law enforcement officers, who opened a criminal case for fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The prosecutor's office also reported that just last week in the Krasnoyarsk Territory More than 39 million rubles were stolen remotely from 102 residents of the region: 9 became victims of fake crypto exchanges; 33 — phishing links to online stores; 38 people were under the influence of false employees of special services and organizations who were saving “well-being”; 5 social network users trusted messages from the accounts of friends and acquaintances who asked to borrow money; 17 victims fell for the tricks of unidentified persons on the Internet through deception. In each case, criminal cases have been initiated and investigated.