In the Vladimir region, an 84-year-old woman gave the courier a package of counterfeit money worth 1.7 million rubles. About what happened report vladimir.mk.ru.
It is known that agents of the Aleksandrovsky district arrested a 26-year-old resident of the Moscow region, who was an accomplice of telephone scammers. The young man was supposed to get the money but for him, the trip to the alleged victim ended in failure.
Initially, her grandmother's phone received many calls from strangers introducing themselves as employees of the FSB and Rosfinmonitoring. The interlocutors began to tell her that it was necessary to declare the available cash as soon as possible so that the attackers could not finance terrorist activities on her behalf.
Pensioner Kirov gave almost 7 million rubles to scammers
The pensioner ran to the bank, where the manager suspected that the elderly customer really needed money for his needs. Police joined the investigation and spoke to the woman. Soon, the scammers' accomplices received a package with a dummy and were arrested.
The young man admitted that he had seen the offer on this way of making money on the messenger. Law enforcement officials opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 159 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud”.
Previously, it was reported that a woman in Vladivostok spoke to a fake delivery service employee of a famous online store, causing her to lose her apartment and 8 million rubles. The victim was persuaded to quickly sell her property to escape the scammers.
