A resident of Kirov signed a petition for the improvement of the yard area and lost more than 200 thousand.
A 55-year-old resident of Kirov received a message in one of the messengers in the chat of the management company, stating that it was necessary to sign a petition for the improvement of the adjacent territory. The woman clicked on the link attached to the message and signed the "document." However, she later received a notification that her account on the State Services had allegedly been hacked and that she needed to contact technical support at the specified number.
A man answered the call from the Kirov resident, confirming the fact of the hacking. He said that powers of attorney had been issued in the name of the Kirov resident for the disposal of all her property. This power of attorney could supposedly only be annulled by replacing the account "by the inspector of the federal treasury." The "inspector" stated that criminals-extremists were conducting operations through the victim's account, and to avoid any legal issues, all her savings needed to be "declared."
The Kirov resident installed a payment application, through which she transferred 225,000 rubles to the specified details and immediately deleted it. Following that, she was contacted by a "prosecutor's employee," who provided his details and showed a fake service ID in a video.
The Kirov resident realized she was communicating with scammers only after the fake prosecutor demanded that she give her consent to cooperate on camera. A criminal case has been initiated regarding this incident.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Kirov region reminds: do not transfer money based on instructions from strangers who contacted you by phone or online. Additionally, do not click on suspicious links.
Другие Новости Кирова (НЗК)
A resident of Kirov signed a petition for the improvement of the yard area and lost more than 200 thousand.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Kirov Region reported on another case of fraud.
