A resident of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk gave more than 1.2 million rubles to fraudsters

The police in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk are conducting an investigation into a fraud case involving a 43-year-old woman. She lost more than 1.2 million roubles.

According to the victim, she received a call from a stranger who introduced himself as an employee of a "social fund". He stated that the woman allegedly needed to recalculate her work experience for pension accrual. Sakhalinka reported the code that came to her in a text message, writes IA SakhalinMedia.

Then the woman received a call allegedly from the Central Bank. He claimed that the victim's account was under threat. The interlocutor persuaded the woman to transfer funds to a "safe" account.

A criminal case was initiated under part 1 of article 272 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Illegal access to computer information").

In Moscow, an eighth-grade student became a victim of fraudsters. The swindlers on the phone offered the teenager to declare all the money she had at home. The girl agreed to hand over all the money to a courier for delivery to the "tax service". The damage exceeded 600 thousand rubles.