The scammers scammed a 71-year-old specialist from one of the main Russian Internet providers. The man gave the scammers more than 8 million rubles, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region reported.
The man contacted the police on April 8. He said he had received calls in recent days from an unknown woman who introduced herself as an employee of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
The fraudster convinced the Petersburger that suspicious transactions were taking place on his accounts. To save funds, the citizen was advised to transfer all money to a “safe” account.
The man obeyed and gave the scammers 8.6 million rubles. Now that the police are looking for criminals, a criminal case has been opened under the fraud article.
Earlier, The Eastern Herald in St. Petersburg told how a pensioner from St. Petersburg sold her apartment and transferred 7.5 million rubles to scammers “for security reasons”.
