Fraudsters tricked a Belarusian woman out of 92,000 rubles under the pretext of declaring money
Telephone scammers posing as law enforcement officers swindled 92,000 rubles from a resident of Bobruisk.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on this fact.
This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Committee for the Mogilev region.
How the scammers operated
According to the investigation, on the morning of October 28, a 52-year-old resident of Bobruisk received a call in a messenger allegedly from an employee of a mobile operator.
The caller offered to change the tariff, but the Bobruisk resident refused.
Two hours later, a call came from “an employee of the capital’s Department of Financial Investigations.”
Having given her last name and position, the caller asked the woman whether her savings had been declared and warned that the undeclared money would soon be confiscated by local police officers.
The Bobruisk resident believed and handed over to the “department representative” 92,000 rubles, which the family had been collecting for more than 10 years.
The next morning, the scammers convinced the woman to go to the bank for a loan of 10,000 rubles.
The bank employee suspected something was wrong and began to find out why the Bobruisk resident was taking out a loan.
The woman reported the calls and the transfer of savings for declaration. The bank employee reported the situation to the security service and the police.
The Bobruisk inter-district department of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on this fact under Part 4 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale).
