In the Leningrad region, fraudsters lured 2.8 million rubles from a pensioner under the guise of tax

In the Vsevolozhsky district of the Leningrad region, telephone scammers lured 2.8 million rubles from an 81-year-old pensioner under the guise of a tax audit. This was announced on October 29 by a source of Izvestia.

"On October 23, a man answered a call from unknown people who convinced him to transfer his savings to a courier. The attackers assured him that he would take the money to the tax office for verification," the source said.

The next day, the pensioner met a stranger at his house and gave him his savings. At the direction of the scammers, for several days the man transferred funds to different bank accounts until he realized that he had become a victim of a criminal scheme.

A criminal case has been opened into the incident.

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The day before, the Main Directorate (GU) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Krasnoyarsk Territory reported that in the city of Nazarovo, a false lawyer deceived a pensioner for almost 1 million rubles. It was noted that an elderly woman received a call from a man who introduced himself as a lawyer and began talking about an alleged attempt to steal her funds.

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