Scammers lured 720 thousand from a pensioner and forced her to shout the word "Azov"

Fraudsters lured 720,000 from a pensioner and forced her to shout the word "Azov" (an organization recognized as terrorist and banned in the territory of the Russian Federation) at the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. This was reported on May 24 by a source of Izvestia.

According to the source, an 84-year-old woman contacted the police with a fraud report, saying that a man who introduced himself as an employee of Rosfinmonitoring called her and advised her to declare money and jewelry "for safety."

The pensioner sent a photo of her savings to the attacker in a messenger, after which the scammer, under the pretext of verification, forced her to transfer money to the specified accounts.

Then the scammers told the woman to come to the Investigative Department of the Russian Interior Ministry and shout the word "Azov". A criminal case has been opened under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud").

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Earlier, on May 16, it was reported that in Moscow, a pensioner agreed to receive animal feed through delivery, after which she lost 5.8 million rubles, which she gave to the attackers. According to the Izvestia source, the woman answered a call from a "courier" who asked her to dictate the code from an SMS message. The fraudster convinced the Muscovite woman to collect funds in foreign currency and transfer them to couriers.