Fraudsters extorted 17 million rubles from a pensioner from Kaliningrad

The pensioner came to Moscow from Kaliningrad to transfer more than 17 million rubles to fraudsters. This was announced on August 14 in the press service of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Kaliningrad region.

"Law enforcement officers have established that the applicant received a call in the messenger from an alleged employee of the portal of public services. The interlocutor informed the woman that third parties had gained access to her bank account," the department's Telegram channel said.

It is noted that the attacker introduced himself as a law enforcement officer and convinced the pensioner to withdraw all savings and transfer them to a "secure account." The woman went to Moscow, as there is no branch of the bank in which her funds were located in Kaliningrad. There she withdrew all the savings and transferred them to the bank details specified by the fraudster.

According to the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, the victim's granddaughter noticed the strange behavior of her grandmother and asked about the reasons for the trip to the capital. After learning the truth, she took the woman to the police department to write a statement. A criminal case has been opened under Part 4 of Article 159 ("Fraud committed on an especially large scale").

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On August 13, it was reported that in St. Petersburg, fraudsters extorted more than 5.5 million rubles from a 79-year-old pensioner. It was noted that a St. Petersburg woman answered a call from the alleged military prosecutor's office. The source of Izvestia clarified that unknown people tried to take possession of her savings, and then called for her to "declare" the funds.

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