A pensioner in Moscow gave more than 24 million rubles to fraudsters

Fraudsters have swindled a capital pensioner out of more than 24 million rubles. This was reported by a source of Izvestiya on November 18.

According to him, in early November, the attacker called the 72-year-old Muscovite via messenger and introduced himself as his acquaintance. The interlocutor said that the company where the pensioner used to work was allegedly being checked, and a call from a "law enforcer" would be received soon. A few hours later, an "FSB investigator" called via the same messenger and informed about the criminal case of state treason.

The next day, also via messenger, the "major of the FSB" informed that on behalf of the pensioner an attempt to transfer funds to the name of a citizen sponsoring Ukrainian militants was recorded. Later, the man was contacted by an "employee of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation" and offered to transfer all the money to a "safe account".

On the instructions of the attackers, for several days the Muscovite withdrew funds from different banks and transferred them to unknown persons who called a code word. Meetings were scheduled in different places - near the bank, in the park, at the store.

Soon the man realized that he had fallen victim to fraudsters and turned to the law enforcers. The amount of damage exceeds 24 million rubles. An investigation is underway.

Earlier in the day it was reported that in St. Petersburg, fraudsters deceived an 86-year-old woman, posing as employees of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia. They swindled 2.1 million rubles from the pensioner under the pretext of protecting these funds from intruders. A criminal case under part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud") has been opened over the incident.