Law enforcement officers stopped fraud with Telegram accounts for 400 million rubles

Police officers stopped the activities of scammers related to the misuse of other people's accounts in the Telegram messenger. The total amount of damage caused by the actions of intruders exceeds 400 million rubles. This was announced on May 5 by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Irina Volk.

The scammers are suspected of having organized an infrastructure in the Telegram messenger that provided temporary access to other people's accounts. They were used to ensure the illegal activities of call centers located on the territory of Ukraine, which committed fraudulent acts against Russian citizens.

"According to reports, in the period from September 2024 to March 2025, more than 11 thousand accounts were transferred through the operation of one of the Telegram channels," Volk clarified in her Telegram channel.

According to Volk, the alleged organizer and participant of the criminal group were detained in the Volgograd and Sverdlovsk regions. Criminal cases have been initiated under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud").

A preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen in relation to the suspects.

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On May 5, employees of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia and the Department of the Vladimir Region department detained members of a criminal community who helped telephone fraudsters carry out illegal actions throughout the country using a large number of SIM cards. It is noted that during searches in various regions of the Russian Federation, mobile phones, 23 SIM boxes, and over 1,000 SIM cards were seized.