Sakhalin resident gave more than 5 million rubles to fraudsters

In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the police are conducting an investigation into fraud, the victim of which was a 56-year-old woman. She lost more than 5.4 million rubles.

According to the victim, she received a call allegedly from an employee of Rosfinmonitoring. The conman said that a criminal case could be initiated against the woman in connection with the financing of an unfriendly state. The criminal convinced the Sakhalin woman to transfer the money to a "special checking account," SakhalinMedia news agency writes.

The woman transferred almost 3 million rubles from her personal funds, as well as more than 2.4 million rubles of credit funds.

In the Murmansk region, scammers deceived two schoolgirls. They transferred their parents' money to outside accounts. The total damage amounted to 780 thousand rubles.