Fraudsters, under the pretext of earning money on the stock exchange, lured more than 79,000 rubles from a pensioner from Grodno.
A criminal case has been opened on this fact under the article “Fraud”.
The press service of the Internal Affairs Department of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee reported this on Telegram.
How the scammers operated
In early December, a 73-year-old pensioner contacted the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs in Grodno, having become a victim of fraudsters and lost more than 79,000 rubles.
At the end of October, the applicant found an advertisement on the Internet about earning money on the Finam exchange, followed the link, and left her contact information.
Some time later, a man called her from a foreign number and introduced himself as a company manager, offering to make money on the stock exchange.
The pensioner agreed. The manager said he would pass her contact information on to the broker.
After that, a girl called, introducing herself as a broker. She persuaded the Grodno resident to top up her account with 380 Belarusian rubles.
A little later, 10% of the amount was returned to the woman's card. The pensioner decided that this was profit from the transactions and transferred almost 14,000 Belarusian rubles and almost 2 million Russian rubles.
After some time, the broker delighted the Grodno resident by saying that she allegedly withdrew $19,600 to a British bank account.
The pensioner went to the bank to withdraw money, but they told her that she had become a victim of fraud.
A criminal case of fraud on an especially large scale has been opened on this fact.
