Serpukhov police detained the courier of telephone fraudsters

According to the head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Moscow region Tatiana Petrova, a pensioner in one of the messengers received a message about the termination of the application. A digital code was required to “restore access.” After the transition, an inscription appeared on the screen about the alleged hacking of the service "State Services".

Then the woman received a call from unknown people who introduced themselves as employees of the Single Portal. They convinced her that her personal account was hacked, and fraudsters were trying to transfer her money to finance Ukraine. To “preserve savings”, the pensioner was recommended to transfer the funds to a trusted person for declaration. The woman gave the courier a package with a million rubles, and later, realizing the deception, went to the police.

Having studied the recordings of CCTV cameras, law enforcement officers established the identity of the courier and detained her at the place of temporary residence in Lyubertsy. According to the detainee, in the messenger she was offered part-time work on the delivery of items; tasks and instructions she received from the curator in a general chat, payment – to a bank card.

The investigator of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case under Part 3 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In relation to the defendant, a preventive measure was chosen in the form of a ban on certain actions. Measures are being taken to identify accomplices in the crime and other episodes of illegal activity.