85-year-old Russian actor Lev Prygunov became a victim of telephone scammers.
Fraudsters swindled 118,000 rubles from the star of the TV series "Deadly Force" and "Gromovs", the SHOT Telegram channel reports.
How scammers deceived Prygunov
The other day, Prygunov received a call allegedly from a medical clinic. The actor was told that he was booked for three procedures and that they needed to be paid for.
To pay, he had to follow the links. When Prygunov fulfilled all the conditions, 118,000 rubles were written off from his accounts.
After this, the "medical clinic employees" stopped communicating. The actor contacted the police, an investigation is underway.
Earlier it became known that scammers deceived director Nikita Mikhalkov's assistant Natalia Semina.
Fraudsters posing as Wikipedia representatives stole 250,000 rubles from her.
