Girl Accidentally Helped Fraudsters Steal Aunt

In the Tatishchevsky district of the Saratov region, police establish the circumstances of the theft of a large sum from the bank account of an elderly woman. According to the press service of the regional interior Ministry, the police appealed 70-year-old resident of one of the villages of the district, reported about the write-off of 643 thousand rubles.

During the inspection, it turned out that a few days ago, a niece asked the victim to urgently dictate the code from an SMS message. The woman complied with the request, after which funds were written off from her account. As it turned out, the relative herself became a victim of a fraudulent scheme: the 46-year-old niece received a call from an unknown woman who introduced herself as a bank employee, and under the pretext of obtaining bank points under the loyalty program asked her to name the phone number of a relative and find out his SMS code without interrupting the call.

Realizing that she was cheated, the woman interrupted the conversation, blocked the personal account of the mobile bank and advised her aunt to do the same. The villagers’ own savings were not stolen. It was established that the attackers, having gained access to the personal account of the 46-year-old woman, through a special banking service linking several clients, gained access to the accounts of the pensioner. Some of the money was saved in the niece's account thanks to the lock.

On the fact of theft from a bank account, a criminal case was initiated under paragraph "d" of part 3 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The police conduct an inspection, establish all the circumstances of the incident and decide on the initiation of criminal proceedings on fraud.

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