A call from the “ministry” cost a Minsk resident more than 100,000 rubles
Telephone scammers swindled more than 100,000 rubles from a Minsk resident.
A criminal case has been opened on fraud on an especially large scale.
This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Committee's Minsk office.
How the scammers operated
In September, a 56-year-old resident of the Leninsky district of Minsk received a call from a supposedly serious leader from the Ministry of Industry.
The caller informed the Minsk resident about a secret inspection being conducted at his enterprise and an upcoming call from an employee of the State Security Committee.
After that, a call allegedly came from the KGB. The man was told that the chief accountant of the plant was suspected of selling the personal data of employees to open accounts and loans in their name.
Then the Minsk resident was informed that loans were issued in his name in eight banks and that he needed to take out loans himself in order to cancel the applications.
The man took out loans totaling over 72,000 rubles. The money was transferred to the fraudsters' accounts.
After that, the scammers told the Minsk resident that a foreign currency loan had been issued in his name. The man transferred more than $8,000.
However, the Minsk resident was then contacted by real employees of the bank where he made his last transaction, and the deception was revealed. In total, the man lost more than 100,000 rubles.
A criminal case has been opened on this fact under Part 4 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale).
