Two residents of the Belarusian capital – teachers at Minsk universities – lost a significant amount of money after communicating with the “boss”.
The women who suffered from the fraudsters contacted the Pervomaysky District Department of Internal Affairs of the city.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus reported this on its official telegram channel, noting that both citizens were deceived by scammers using the same scheme.
One of them received a message in a messenger from a user with personal data and a profile photo similar to that of the university rector.
The woman believed that she was dealing with the manager. And he asked her to assist law enforcement officers, but not to tell anyone about it.
Afterwards, an unknown citizen called the teacher and informed her that illegal financial transactions were allegedly being carried out in her name.
The woman was advised: in order to avoid liability and save money, she needed to transfer about 120,000 rubles in equivalent to “special accounts.” Which is what she did.
Another Minsk resident, also a teacher, was deceived using the same scheme, forcing her to “declare” a similar amount of money.
A criminal case has been opened on the fact of fraud, the ministry noted.
