A woman from Kirov nearly lost half a million because of a "phone check".
The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kirov Region reported a new fraud scheme whose victim was a 69-year-old woman from Kirov.
The pensioner received the first call on her landline. An unknown caller said there would be a "scheduled equipment replacement" and asked for a copy of her phone service contract to confirm her identity. When the pensioner said she did not have the document, the caller asked her to dictate her passport details. The woman complied.
The next day a man who introduced himself as an investigator from the military prosecutor's office called the woman. He asked whether she had given her personal data to anyone. After the pensioner told him about the "equipment replacement," the caller said that fraudsters had already obtained her data, taken out a loan in her name and sent the money to finance Ukraine. He said she was now supposedly being treated as an accomplice.
Then a "investigator from Moscow" contacted the woman. He said she needed to gather all her savings and send them "for declaration." Fearing criminal liability, the pensioner went to the bank and tried to withdraw 500,000 rubles, but was refused due to lack of documents.
The fake investigator demanded that she try again and persuade the bank staff to hand over the money. But the second time the woman could not explain the purpose of withdrawing such a large sum. Worried by what had happened, she told her son. The man immediately recognized the scam and insisted she report it to the police.
A criminal case has been opened into the attempted theft. Law enforcement officials remind people: do not give your personal data to strangers and especially do not follow their instructions. If someone urges you to withdraw money and transfer it "for verification," they are fraudsters.
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A woman from Kirov nearly lost half a million because of a "phone check".
A 69-year-old resident of Kirov nearly fell victim to a criminal scheme when scammers posing as prosecutors and investigators convinced her that she was implicated in a case of "financing Ukraine."