Fraudsters cheated a university teacher in St. Petersburg out of 1.7 million rubles

Fraudsters cheated a teacher of a St. Petersburg university out of 1.7 million rubles. This was reported by a source of Izvestia on December 1.

According to the source, on October 31, the man received a call from an unknown number. The attacker introduced himself as an employee of the FSB and reported fraudulent actions with the bank account of the teacher.

As a result, he convinced the victim to withdraw the money and transfer it to a "safe" account. The amount of damage amounted to 1 million 715 thousand rubles.

A criminal case under the article "Fraud" was initiated on this fact.

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On the eve in the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the city of Neftekamsk informed "Izvestia" that fraudsters deceived a 74-year-old local resident for 7 million rubles. According to the source, the attacker contacted the woman under the guise of a brokerage company manager. As a result, the victim invested all her bank savings and allegedly earned 39 million rubles on them, but the "manager" stopped contacting her.