Declaration of funds cost the pensioner very expensive
The lawyer notified the pensioner that an employee of the tax service would come to her, who needed to transfer money to conduct their declaration.
Another case of major fraud was recorded in the Fire District of Primorsky Krai. The duty part of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia “Pozharsky” received a statement from a 73-year-old resident of Luchegorsk. The pensioner said that she became a victim of unknown persons who fraudulently took possession of her savings in the amount of 2 million 118 thousand rubles.
As the police established, in the early morning a man called the woman’s home phone, claiming to be a lawyer. He notified the pensioner that an employee of the tax service will come to her, who needs to transfer money to conduct their declaration, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Primorye reports. Two hours later, an unknown girl did come to the applicant and the elderly woman handed her RUB 1,550,000.
After another 2 days, the victim, following the instructions of telephone scammers, transferred another 550 thousand rubles through an ATM to the account that the attackers indicated to her. After receiving this amount, the fraudsters stopped communicating. Only then the pensioner realized that she was a victim of fraud, and asked for help in law enforcement.
On this fact, a criminal case was initiated under part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud”. The maximum sanction of this article provides for imprisonment for up to 10 years in combination with a fine of up to one million rubles.
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