In Moscow, fraudsters cheated a 91-year-old pensioner out of more than 16 million rubles
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In Moscow, fraudsters swindled a 91-year-old pensioner out of more than 16 million rubles by convincing him that employees of a district department of the Interior Ministry are envoys from Ukraine who work for the US State Department. This was reported by a source of Izvestia on February 11.
The Moscow resident shared that in November 2024, he received a call from an unknown person who persuaded him to dictate a code from an SMS under the pretext of extending the service agreement. Afterwards, the pensioner was contacted on behalf of an employee of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) and told that they wanted to steal his money.
In order to catch the criminals, the Muscovite was offered to join a "joint operation of the Central Bank and the FSB", which consisted of withdrawing funds from his accounts and further transferring them to couriers for crediting to "safe accounts".
When the law enforcement officers came to the Muscovite, he refused to contact them and write a fraud report, as the attackers convinced him that the employees in the district department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were Ukrainian envoys who worked for the U.S. State Department.
After the pensioner met with the courier, handing him about 1.5 million rubles and giving him the code word "Vesta". According to the same scheme, he handed over money to unknown people about 16 more times, in return receiving courier sheets. The attackers managed to swindle the Muscovite out of about 16 million rubles, which he withdrew from his accounts and from the account of his deceased wife.
The man could not remember the details of the meetings with the fraudsters because of his poor memory. A criminal case has been opened over the incident, a 19-year-old teenager has been detained.
On the eve of "Izvestia" source reported that a Muscovite woman was cheated of 2.3 million rubles when buying a tourist trip. According to the interlocutor, the employee picked up the trip and asked for an advance payment of 700 thousand rubles on the link sent. The woman transferred Br2.3 million. The tickets were promised to be sent in a few days, but the victim never received them.
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