I wanted to support the petition, but stayed with loans: in Penza fraudsters cheated the girl on 1.25 million rubles

Scammers continue to come up with new ways to cheat, exploiting not only people’s fear of their savings, but also their desire to help others. A young resident of Penza faced a similar scheme, who agreed to support the petition and as a result found herself with large loans.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Penza region, a girl born in 2004 turned to the police. She said that she received a message in the messenger from an unknown man. The interlocutor claimed that his friend allegedly died in the zone of a special military operation, and asked to sign a petition for posthumous assignment of the title of Hero of Russia.

Penziaka agreed to help and followed the link sent. On the opened page, she entered personal data for entering the personal account on the portal "State Services".

After a while, the girl received a message in another messenger. It said that her account on “public services” was allegedly hacked. To solve the problem, it was suggested to call the specified number.

The girl followed the instructions and contacted the unknown. They said that fraudsters gained access to her account and are trying to get a loan in her name.

To prevent illegal actions, the interlocutors advised Penzenka to take loans for the maximum possible amount and thus exhaust the available credit limit.

Having believed the attackers, the girl fulfilled their instructions and issued several loans totaling about 1 million 250 thousand rubles.

Only after that, she realized that she was a victim of deception and asked the police for help. At the same time, as specified by law enforcement officers, the victim already knew about such fraudulent schemes.

On the fact of the incident, a criminal case was initiated under part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud”. The maximum penalty under this article is up to 10 years in prison.

Currently, police officers identify persons involved in the crime.