In Samara, phone scammers stole 421 million rubles from a woman
Samara law enforcers have detained four phone scammers who stole 421 million rubles from a local resident. This was reported by the Russian Interior Ministry in its Telegram channel on February 11.
According to preliminary data, the fraudsters called the woman and introduced themselves as law enforcement officers. She was informed that attempts were made to transfer funds from her account to finance the Ukrainian military. The attackers then convinced her to cash out all her savings and hand them over to couriers to be deposited into a "safe account". Following the instructions, the victim handed over the money to strangers. The damage amounted to over 421 million rubles.
In the course of the investigation, police officers detained the defendants.
"According to the suspects, they found criminal part-time work through messenger. The anonymous employer said that they would have to take money from people and various ways to transfer them to the specified accounts, leaving themselves a certain percentage," - stated in the statement.
The investigation of the criminal case under part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud committed by an organized group or on a particularly large scale or entailed deprivation of the right of a citizen to residential premises") continues.
Earlier, on January 20, a source of "Izvestia" reported that in Moscow, a 15-year-old girl handed over 600 thousand rubles to fraudsters for "declaration". The eighth-grader received a call from unknown persons and said that it was necessary to declare all the money at home. The attackers offered the teenager not to walk around the city with a large sum, but to hand over the funds to a courier who would deliver them to the "tax service". In total, the girl gave 350 thousand rubles and $3 thousand to the swindlers.
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