A woman from Kirov nearly lost 100,000 rubles after a call about renewing her telecommunications services contract.

      Recently a 79-year-old woman from Kirov received a call from a stranger who introduced himself as an employee of a company providing communications services. He said that her contract was about to expire and that it needed to be renewed. For this, the caller asked for passport details. The pensioner provided them immediately.

      Some time later the victim received a call from an unknown woman who said that her data had fallen into the hands of fraudsters who could steal her savings and send them to finance Ukraine. The woman added that if this happened the pensioner would be held criminally liable. She suggested transferring all the savings to a "safe" account.

      After that the woman from Kirov took the 100,000 rubles she had kept at home and went to the bank to transfer them as instructed. At the bank she was stopped by police officers who explained that she had been communicating with fraudsters.

      A criminal case on attempted fraud was opened by the police. The perpetrators are currently being sought. During 2025 scammers stole more than 1.3 billion rubles from Kirov residents. A woman from Kirov transferred more than 2 million rubles to scammers while trying to earn money on cryptocurrency. A Kirov pensioner gave scammers 300,000 rubles and bought a smartphone at the scammers' instruction.