A schoolboy from Brest under the influence of fraudsters gave the courier more than 48 thousand parental savings

Fraudsters persuaded a schoolboy from Brest to hand over his parents' savings to them. This was reported in the Department of Internal Affairs of the Brest Regional Executive Committee, writes sb.by.

A 42-year-old resident of Brest appealed to the police with a statement that fraudsters forced his underage son to give them more than 48 thousand. The police found that the 12-year-old student received a call from a foreign number. The caller reported about the upcoming replacement of the intercom in the house and convinced him to name the SMS code that came to the child on the phone.

After that, the boy in the messenger began to receive calls from other unknowns, who posed as law enforcement officers. They convinced the schoolboy that the data he had received had been used by fraudsters to transfer money to a fund of an unfriendly country, and that his parents and he would be severely punished for doing so. The child was required to collect the money in the house and transfer it to a trusted person.

The boy collected the savings stored in the house and gave them to the courier. Only then did he decide to tell his parents what had happened.

The courier was a 32-year-old resident of Gomel, who himself became a victim of scammers and acted on their instructions, unaware that he was part of a fraudulent scheme.

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