Kirov resident lost 2.6 million rubles after a call from the post office

      A 73-year-old resident of Kirov lost a large sum of money as a result of a multi-stage fraudulent scheme. It all started with a messenger call from a stranger who introduced himself as a postal employee and informed a pensioner born in 1951 about a registered letter that had allegedly arrived in her name.

      To receive this letter, according to the caller, it was necessary to name the code from the SMS message, which the woman did. Immediately after that, she began receiving calls in the messenger from other people who introduced themselves as employees of Roskomnadzor and Rosfinmonitoring. They scared the pensioner, saying that the criminals, using the transmitted code, had gained access to her account on Gosuslugi and were now stealing her savings.

      To supposedly save the money, the interlocutors convinced the Kirov resident to follow a number of instructions. The final stage was the transfer of her bank card to a "specially authorized person" who came to her home. There were 2.65 million rubles in the account linked to this card. As it turned out later, these funds were cashed out by scammers in one of the neighboring cities.

      Now police officers are identifying everyone who communicated with the victim on the phone, as well as the man who came to her for a card. A case was opened on the fact of fraud on a particularly large scale.