Telephone scammers posing as representatives of a mobile operator and the financial police swindled more than 83,000 rubles from a Gorodok resident.
A criminal case has been opened on this fact under the article “Fraud”.
The press service of the Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Department reported this on Telegram.
How the scammers operated
A 71-year-old local resident contacted the Gorodok police after becoming a victim of fraud.
First, the applicant received a call via messenger from a supposed representative of a mobile operator.
The caller asked to provide passport details, allegedly to renew the subscriber number service agreement, which the pensioner did.
Then she received a video call from a supposed representative of the financial police.
He was in uniform and showed his ID. The fake policeman told the pensioner that she would be participating in a "special operation to catch scammers."
The woman was required to take a photo of all the money in the house and send the photo to the “policeman”.
The next day she was told to hand over all the money to an “employee” who would come to her home.
The pensioner handed over the equivalent of over 83,000 rubles to the courier. A couple of days later, the "law enforcement officers" stopped responding.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of fraud on this fact.
