Telephone scammers posing as bank employees and law enforcement officers swindled 45,000 rubles from a resident of Grodno.
A criminal case of fraud on an especially large scale has been opened on this fact.
The press service of the Internal Affairs Department of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee reported this on Telegram.
How the scammers operated
On September 23, a 39-year-old resident of Grodno received a call from an alleged employee of the Belarusbank security service.
The caller told the man about a loan taken out in his name by fraudsters and warned that police officers would soon come to search his home.
Then the Grodno resident received a call from a supposed cybercrime countermeasures officer from Minsk.
The fake law enforcement officer asked the man to transfer all funds to a “safe” account to cancel the transaction.
A resident of the regional center believed them and transferred 30,000 rubles to the scammers. The criminals also convinced him to take out a loan for 15,000 rubles.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on this fact regarding fraud on an especially large scale.
The police remind you: bank and police employees do not call via messengers and do not ask to take out loans or transfer money to any accounts.
