In St. Petersburg, fake security forces lured 3.9 million rubles from a pensioner

In St. Petersburg, phone scammers who called themselves security forces lured more than 3.9 million rubles from a 79-year-old pensioner. This was announced on October 7 by a source of Izvestia.

The scammers ingratiated themselves with the St. Petersburg woman for several days.

"The unidentified men presented themselves as employees of the management company, and then as employees of law enforcement agencies. Scaring the woman with a fictitious threat, they convinced her to "declare" her savings," the source explained.

On September 29, the pensioner met with a stranger in the Nevsky district and transferred over 3.4 million rubles to him, and a day later transferred another 450 thousand rubles to the account specified by the scammers. The issue of initiating a criminal case is being resolved.

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