A 25-year-old woman from Kirov transferred 1.3 million to scammers.

      A 25-year-old woman from Kirov recently turned to the police. She reported a fraud.

      It all began when a stranger called the woman and introduced himself as an employee of the MFC. He said she needed to renew her compulsory health insurance policy (OMS) and should come to the clinic. The caller added that they had sent her an electronic queue number and asked her to give him those digits. She did.

      Some time later a woman calling herself a support specialist from the Gosuslugi portal phoned her. She said the woman's account had been hacked.

      Then someone identifying himself as an employee of the Central Bank contacted her. He said she needed to take out a loan so that fraudsters could not obtain a loan in her name.

      After that a man who said he worked for the FSB called. He claimed that the criminals were allegedly trying to transfer 1.2 million rubles from the woman's name to the account of a Ukrainian serviceman wanted since 2023. To protect the money, the caller suggested transferring it to a “safe account.”

      Following the instructions, the woman installed apps for several banks on her phone and took out loans totaling 939,000 rubles. She sent that money, together with her own savings, where she was told. In total the woman lost 1.3 million rubles. The callers then stopped responding, and she realized she had been deceived.

      A criminal case has been opened on the fraud. The perpetrators are currently being sought.