Scammers cheated a 21-year-old Kirov resident out of nearly 4 million rubles.

      A 21-year-old resident of Kirov was contacted by a "tax officer." The interlocutor asked the Kirov resident to provide his details, allegedly for filing a tax return. Shortly afterwards a fake Central Bank employee contacted the young man. According to him, the information the victim had previously disclosed had fallen into the hands of criminals, and they were now trying to seize his savings. Allegedly an urgent transfer of funds to a "protected special account" would help preserve the money. The man from Kirov was given the details of bank cards supposedly linked to that account. He entered them into the contactless payment app on his smartphone. Through ATMs he deposited money onto those cards. Only then did he realize that he no longer had access to the funds and went to the police. Having trusted strangers, the victim lost 3,855,000 rubles.