In the Khabarovsk Territory, fraudsters lured 4.5 million rubles from a pensioner.

A resident of the Khabarovsk Territory handed over 4.5 million rubles to fraudsters after threatening criminal liability for high treason. This was reported on March 10 in the press service of the prosecutor's office of the region.

"This week, a 74-year-old resident of the region became a victim of fraud. The woman received a call from an unknown person who introduced himself as an employee of the military enlistment office, who said that her deceased son was awarded the Order of Courage, for which he needed to dictate his passport information, which she did," the press service said in a message on the Maks messenger.

After that, the pensioner allegedly received a call from a specialist of the Gosuslugi portal. She was informed that her account had been hacked, and a power of attorney had been issued to an unknown person. Further, according to the woman, she received a call from a false employee of the law enforcement agency, who reported that money from her accounts had allegedly been transferred to the banking details of a member of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), for which she was threatened with charges of treason and punishment up to life imprisonment.

The frightened woman was assigned a "lawyer." During the conversation with him, she told about her savings, after which she was persuaded to cash out 4.5 million rubles and go to the treasury in Novosibirsk.

Arriving in the city, the pensioner contacted the "investigator", who sent her to the address where the fraudster was waiting for her. He gave her the code word "star", after which the woman handed him a bag with money. In return, the man gave her an "act of transfer of a marked denomination."

After the transfer of the money, all the interlocutors stopped contacting: then the woman realized that she had become a victim of deception. A criminal case has been opened into the incident on the grounds of a crime under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud").

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On May 2, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Nizhny Novgorod region reported that a pensioner from Dzerzhinsk lost 8.5 million rubles due to the actions of fraudsters. It is clarified that, on the instructions of the attackers, the pensioner withdrew cash and borrowed money from relatives, after which he transferred it to "secure accounts."