A pensioner gave 2.85 million rubles to fraudsters in the Lipetsk region

A criminal case has been opened in the Lipetsk region on fraud, as a result of which a 77-year-old woman was injured. The victim lost 2.85 million rubles.

According to a resident of Yelets, on April 1, she received a call via messenger from a man who introduced himself as the general director of the company. He stated that the woman is allegedly a suspect in complicity in the commission of a particularly serious crime. Then a "security officer" and an "FSB representative" got in touch. Later, the scammers convinced the woman that someone was allegedly trying to transfer 500 thousand rubles from her accounts, but the bank interrupted the operation. Under the control of the scammers, the victim installed an application on her phone and transferred 1 million rubles to third-party accounts, GOROD48 writes.

After the transfer, the criminals got in touch again and convinced them to transfer another 850 thousand rubles. For the last transfer in the amount of 1 million rubles, the victim had to borrow money from friends.

The police are conducting an investigation into the incident.

In the Magadan region, a 64-year-old man lost more than 1.9 million rubles due to fraud. The attackers deceived the victim by posing as his supervisor.