A pensioner from Kirov lost 1.4 million due to a housing chat.
A statement was received by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Kirov region from a 75-year-old resident of Kirov. The woman became a victim of telephone scammers and lost 1.4 million rubles.
It all started with a call from an unknown person who offered the pensioner to join a communal chat for residents. To do this, she was required to dictate a code that came in an SMS. The woman followed the instructions, after which the call was interrupted.
However, soon a new series of calls followed — this time from people who introduced themselves as employees of the Ministry of Digital Development, the Treasury, and the FSB. In a unified story, the callers informed her that she had already given her personal data to the scammers, who hacked her account on the "Gosuslugi" portal and issued a power of attorney in the name of a citizen of Ukraine. The interlocutors then convinced the pensioner that all her savings were at risk of theft.
The rescue scheme proposed by the fake employees looked like this: the money needed to be declared and transferred to a safe account. Since it was about cash, a courier was supposed to come to the victim's home to collect the funds and return them after verification. Believing this instruction, the resident of Kirov packed the 1.4 million rubles she had at home and handed them over to an unfamiliar man at the entrance. He named a code word, after which he took the money and disappeared.
When all the "employees" stopped contacting her, the pensioner realized she had been deceived and contacted the police. A criminal case has been initiated under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Fraud committed by an organized group or on a particularly large scale or resulting in deprivation of a citizen's right to housing). An investigation is underway.
Police officers remind: government structures and law enforcement agencies do not call citizens demanding to transfer money to third-party accounts and do not send couriers to collect cash. If a conversation includes an offer to place funds in a "safe account" — this is a 100% sign of fraud. The most reliable way to protect yourself is to end the conversation and verify the information through official sources, and ideally — not to answer calls from unknown numbers.
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