A 69-year-old foreign woman who became a victim of Internet fraudsters contacted the Soviet District Department of Internal Affairs of Minsk.
As a result of trusting the criminals, she lost her apartments and the money she received from selling them.
As reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus on its official Telegram channel, the woman decided to invest her savings in digital currency.
I installed a specialized trading application on my smartphone and used it to transfer money.
To get the maximum profit from my investments, I looked for a “consultant” on the Internet.
The latter “consulted” the pensioner for several months; she dealt with the money as he said.
In the end, I transferred about 180,000 rubles, which were left over from the sale of the apartment.
When she failed to withdraw the money, the foreigner realized that she had been deceived by scammers. She contacted the police.
And then she decided to deal with the problem herself, for which she turned to a “lawyer” from the Internet.
He agreed to help, but asked her to pay for the services of the collectors, who, according to him, would bring the entire amount in cash directly to her home.
Thus, under various pretexts, the scammers lured more than 200,000 rubles from the woman, forcing her to sell her second apartment abroad.
The total amount of savings lost by the pensioner amounted to more than 380,000 rubles.
A criminal case has been opened on the fact of fraud, the department noted.
