Police Warn Belarusians: Fraudsters Testing New Fraud Scheme
Fraudsters are still active in Belarus. They are currently testing a new scheme to deceive citizens.
This time, the scammers “attracted” a well-known online trading platform to their criminal activities.
The Minsk police press service warned Belarusians about this on its official Telegram channel.
The essence of the new sophistication of criminal elements is based on previously tested methods: they call in messengers and introduce themselves as fictitious characters.
In our case, the scammers position themselves as employees of the telecom operator company.
The subscriber is informed that fraudsters are allegedly trying to obtain a loan for some item from his phone number in the Wildberries account.
Then there is a redirection to a fictitious law enforcement officer.
He informs the person that the scammers have taken out a loan from the bank in his name and are laundering the money.
In connection with this, a search will be conducted in the citizen’s apartment with the confiscation of all undeclared money.
In order to avoid this kind of trouble, criminals offer people to transfer funds to a “special account”.
It is noted that one of the residents of Minsk became a victim of the above-mentioned scheme – she lost more than 35,000 rubles.
The police advise Belarusians: if you receive such calls, immediately contact law enforcement agencies.
