Fraudsters defrauded a Zelenogorsk resident of all his savings and forced him to sell his car (video)

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, police are investigating a case of telephone fraud, the victim of which was a 52-year-old resident of Zelenogorsk. Over the course of a week, the scammers put psychological pressure on the man and stole more than two million rubles from him.

According to the victim, it all started with a call from an unknown person who identified himself as an employee of the Pension Fund. Under the pretext of making an appointment, he asked for the code from the SMS. The victim provided the information, after which he began to receive calls from imaginary representatives of the security service of the Central Bank, the FSB and other departments.

“The attackers convinced the man that the loans were issued in his name. To cancel them, he was asked to fill out applications and send them via messenger. After this, he was informed that he urgently needed to transfer all his savings to a safe account. Following the instructions of the deceivers, the victim withdrew 1,200,000 rubles from his accounts and, being under constant control of the criminals, transferred 1,190,000 rubles through an ATM. At the same time, he deliberately misled bank employees, explaining the withdrawal of funds by personal needs. Later, the man withdrew and transferred another 400 thousand rubles. But the scammers didn’t stop there: while in Krasnoyarsk, the Zelenogorsk resident, on their instructions, sold his car and also transferred 357 thousand to the specified details. In addition, he transferred an additional 346,800 rubles,” the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

Based on this fact, a criminal case has been initiated under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud”, the sanction of which provides for a maximum penalty of imprisonment for a term of up to 10 years.