The couple gave more than 2.5 million rubles to fraudsters on Sakhalin

The couple from Korsakov (Sakhalin region) lost more than 2.5 million rubles due to fraudsters. A criminal case has been opened on this fact.

According to SakhalinMedia news agency, a 27-year-old man was contacted by a stranger who introduced himself as an employee of the tax service. The interlocutor found out the victim's SNILS number, and later convinced him that the Sakhalin resident's account on the Gosuslugi portal had been hacked, and someone was allegedly applying for loans to his wife.

On the instructions of the scammers, the couple transferred more than 2.5 million rubles to "safe" accounts, of which more than 1.3 million rubles were issued on credit. A criminal case has been opened on the fact of fraud on an especially large scale.

In Moscow, an 83-year-old pensioner gave fraudsters more than 10.4 million rubles. The scammers convinced the man that there had been a data leak at his last place of work.

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