In the Leningrad area, a 90 -year -old Luga resident after the calls of scammers who pretended to be an employee of the phone company transferred more than 6 million rubles for courier.
A woman from the city of Luga on Uritsky Boulevard from March 1 to March 13 has repeatedly received calls from employees of Human Resources Company. RIA «News».
The attackers convinced her about the need to extend the communication agreement by phone and transfer personal data. After that, under the excuse to preserve money, the scammers persuaded the woman twice to transfer money in foreign currencies and rubles twice.
The total number of damage is up to 6,172,750 rubles. Now the police are looking for scammers by using the descriptions of the victims provided by the victim.
A criminal case has been given about the reality of the incident under an article about fraud on a particularly large scale. Press services of the regional headquarters of the Russian Ministry of Home Affairs noted that the search is taking place.
Earlier in the capital, a 77 -year -old man in a week Pandemic The scammers are more than 10 million rubles, he thinks he is helping the law enforcement employees disable criminals.