False broker lured from a resident of the Penza region almost 900 thousand rubles

A resident of the Narovchatsky district lost 883 thousand rubles, believing a stranger who offered her additional earnings on the stock market.

The police appealed to a local resident born in 1980. She said that the unknown contacted her in the messenger and offered to receive income from stock trading. The woman was interested in this possibility, and she agreed to follow his instructions.

At the direction of the interlocutor, the victim installed a special application and initially deposited 23 thousand rubles into an electronic account allegedly to start work.

Then the woman several banking operations transferred to the account specified by the fraudster another 860 thousand rubles. Thus, the total amount of funds transferred amounted to 883 thousand rubles.

After that, the interlocutor stopped communicating, and the woman never received the promised earnings. Realizing that she was a victim of fraud, she went to the police.

As noted in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Penza region, a criminal case was initiated on the fact of the incident under Part 3 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The maximum penalty under this article is up to six years in prison.

Now the police establish the identity of the person involved in the crime.