A woman from Kirov wanted to obtain compensation for a deceased relative, but ended up losing 7.5 million rubles.

      A 33-year-old resident of Kirov turned to the police for help. The woman said that strangers had called her and told her she could receive monetary compensation for a deceased relative. She was asked to provide her SNILS number. The victim followed the scammers’ instructions.

      Then men who introduced themselves as employees of the FSB and the Central Bank got in touch: the Kirov woman gave the criminals her SNILS, which, using those numbers, they could use to transfer her savings to Ukrainian accounts. This could supposedly be prevented by a “replacement of accounts”: for that it was necessary to cash out the money and send it to other “protected” accounts.

      The Kirov woman cashed out her deposits and transferred the money to bank card numbers that were dictated to her. But the perpetrators did not stop there. A fake FSB officer said that someone was also trying to take out a loan in the woman’s name for one and a half million rubles, and that cancelling the application would require topping up a “protected” account by the same amount. The woman decided to borrow the money from a friend, but the friend explained the fraudulent scheme to her and insisted she contact the police. In total the woman lost 7.5 million rubles.

      At the moment the identities of the interlocutors and the recipients of the money transfers are being established. The investigation continues.

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