I believed the search story. Lepelchanin gave fraudsters more than 75 thousand and became their courier

The police turned 23-year-old resident of Lepel, who was the victim of a multi-stage scheme of deception. This was reported in the interior Ministry, writes sb.by.

First, the victim received a message allegedly from a mobile operator. It contained a request to update personal data in order to renew the service contract. Soon, the man received a call from unknown people who introduced themselves as employees of the company. They offered remote help with updating the information and asked to name the code from the message.

After that, he began to receive calls with threats of criminal liability for the transfer of personal data to scammers who commit illegal acts on his behalf.

- Moreover, he was informed about the alleged upcoming search in the apartment and convinced to urgently “declar” savings. Lepelchanin collected all the cash at home, and also withdrew more than 11 thousand Belarusian rubles from a bank card. On the instructions of the fraudsters, he went to Minsk and left the money in the agreed place near the public transport stop, said the head of the department of the Department of Internal Affairs of Minsk Sergey Kukharchik.

In addition, the attackers began to transfer to his bank card various amounts that were obtained by criminal means. The man withdrew money from ATMs, then took them to the specified addresses and left packages near public transport stops.

Suspicion of the wrong man was able only after the fraudsters demanded to hand over the family gold jewelry to the pawnshop. In total, the victim transferred more than 75 thousand to scammers.

During the day, the police received more than 300 reports of calls scammers