“Tagged” money and fake brokers pulled from Kaliningrad 10.5 million rubles

Within a week, 14 residents of the Kaliningrad region became victims of fraudsters. Attackers lured them more than 10.5 million rubles.

As told in the regional Prosecutor’s office, the most lost pensioner from Kaliningrad. She was called under the pretext of protecting money from fraudsters and convinced to transfer more than two million rubles to other accounts.

Another resident of the regional center tried to buy a car through the Internet, but instead of a car lost 1.7 million rubles. Another pensioner was deceived with the help of a story about “labeled” bills: a woman was told that the cashier allegedly gave her such money and they need to be replaced urgently. As a result, she gave fraudsters more than 1.7 million rubles.

Another 999 thousand rubles, the pensioner lost after talking about the allegedly mandatory “declaration” of savings. The elderly Kaliningrad man was convinced that the criminals took possession of his personal data, and offered to transfer the money to the courier. The man gave 800 thousand rubles.

Two residents of the region - an electrician and a concrete worker - believed the promises of high earnings on the brokerage platform. To do this, they issued loans, after which they lost 755 thousand and 640 thousand rubles, respectively.

Earlier we wrote that two Kaliningrad fraudsters threw 1.4 million rubles.