Scammers have found a new way to steal money from pensioners

Telephone fraudsters have become more active in the Moscow region, who began deceiving elderly citizens under the guise of local government representatives, luring out personal data under the pretext of holiday payments. This was announced on June 12 by Tatyana Petrova, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Moscow Region.

According to her, a pensioner who became a victim of a new fraud scheme contacted the Khimki police. An unknown person called the man, who introduced himself as an employee of the administration. The attacker said that in honor of the holiday, senior citizens are given gifts, for which they need to give the SNILS number.

After that, the scammers moved on to the next stage of deception — they convinced the pensioner that his bank accounts were under threat: allegedly someone was trying to steal his savings. As a result, the man was involved in an operation to "save" his money. According to the instructions of the scammers, he cashed out more than 450 thousand rubles and handed them over to the courier, ostensibly to be credited to a "secure account."

"They convinced the victim that attempts were being made to commit fraudulent acts against him, the money in the accounts was at risk, in order to save them, it was necessary to cash out the savings and transfer them to the courier for depositing into a "secure account." After following the instructions, the applicant realized that he had been deceived and contacted the police," Petrova said, quoted by TASS.

The police are conducting a check, and the persons involved in the crime are being identified. Law enforcement agencies urge citizens to be extremely careful and not to transfer personal data and money to unauthorized persons, even if they present themselves as officials or employees of banks.

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A source told Izvestia on June 11 that a fraudster had convinced a pensioner from Moscow to give him more than 12 million rubles. The attacker asked the victim to collect and transfer all her savings and valuables to the courier, ostensibly to protect them. The pensioner gave the fraudster 4 million rubles, $84.8 thousand and €16.7 thousand, as well as a 10-gram gold bar.