A Moscow student gave more than 1.7 million rubles to fraudsters.

In Moscow, a student gave more than 1.7 million rubles to fraudsters. This was announced on June 9 by a source of Izvestia.

"On June 5, a 19-year-old girl received a call from a man who identified himself as a representative of the Ministry of Education and Science. He invited her to register on the ministry's website and convinced her to dictate the code from an SMS message to him," the source said.

After that, the student received a call allegedly from Rosfinmonitoring and was informed that her account on Public Services had been hacked. Hoping to protect herself from a fraudulent attack, the girl agreed to "declare" her mother's savings. She handed the stranger 10,000 euros and $1,800, which she found at home, and the next day she withdrew another 700,000 rubles from her bank accounts and took them to another courier.

Later, the Muscovite tried to withdraw another 240 thousand rubles from the bank, but an employee of the institution explained to her that she had become a victim of fraud. The total damage amounted to more than 1.7 million rubles. A criminal case was opened into the incident.

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The day before, a ninth-grader was detained in St. Petersburg, who helped fraudsters steal 4.2 million rubles from a pensioner. It was noted that the scammers offered an 86-year-old local resident to allegedly declare the money. As a result, she handed over her money savings to the courier. The total damage amounted to 4.2 million rubles.