Kirov resident believed the scammers and lost almost a million rubles.

      A resident of Kirov, born in 1967, told the police that a month and a half ago he started chatting on WhatsApp with a stranger who introduced himself as a "financial analyst." The man accepted an offer of help in making money on the alleged purchase of shares in a resource extraction company.

      A resident of Kirov had to transfer money allegedly for the purchase of securities using the banking details dictated by the interlocutor. In total, since the end of February, he has transferred 833 thousand rubles to fraudsters, most of which were received on credit. The Analyst, in turn, regularly reported on profits, demanding that they continue to contribute money.

      At some point, the Kirov resident demanded that the stranger return the invested funds and income, but the fraudster reported the need to pay another 250 thousand rubles, allegedly as a commission for the transfer of money. It was then that the victim realized that he was being deceived. A criminal case has been opened into attempted fraud on a particularly large scale.