A resident of Magadan gave 5.6 million rubles to fraudsters

A resident of Magadan suffered as a result of telephone fraud. He lost 5.6 million rubles.

According to the 61-year-old man, he was contacted by an "employee of the goods delivery service." He asked me to dictate the code from the SMS message. Shortly after, a stranger called Magadan, who introduced himself as an employee of Rosfinmonitoring. He convinced the victim that fraudulent activity was allegedly registered on his bank account.

According to MagadanMedia news agency, the pensioner agreed to transfer money to "secure" accounts. The criminal case was initiated under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud").

In St. Petersburg, fraudsters called an 84-year-old pensioner and informed him that, allegedly, to capture criminals, it was necessary to transfer money to a courier. An elderly man handed over 20 million rubles to the scammers.

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