Lipetsk resident gave 888 thousand rubles to fraudsters

The police in Lipetsk are conducting an investigation into fraud, which resulted in the death of a 34-year-old man. He transferred 888,000 rubles to outside accounts.

According to the victim, he was contacted by strangers who introduced themselves as employees of the tax service. The man agreed to transfer the money back on January 17, but contacted the police on January 22. GOROD48 writes about this.

Another victim of fraud was a 40-year-old Lipchanka. She expected to receive income from investments and transferred 64 thousand rubles to outside accounts.

In the Sakhalin region, a 72-year-old pensioner gave almost 4 million rubles to fraudsters. The woman clicked on an outside link under the pretext of "the need to digitize working documents."

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