The old scheme in a new wrapper: a pensioner from Minsk gave fraudsters 35 thousand for “declaration”

A 76-year-old Minsk woman who became a victim of a modernized fraudulent scheme appealed to the police. This was reported in the interior Ministry, writes sb.by.

In the messenger, the pensioner wrote an unknown person who introduced himself as a district police inspector and warned about possible calls from scammers. Soon, the woman was contacted allegedly from the pension fund, reported about the recalculation of accruals and asked to dictate the code from the SMS. Then the same pseudo-precinct said that the Minsk woman had just communicated with the scammers and gave them personal data, with the help of which the fraudsters took loans and transferred money to criminal accounts.

The pensioner was warned that the apartment will be searched, and all available cash will be seized if they are not declared. The victim was frightened and gave the false employee of the National Bank about 35 thousand rubles in the equivalent.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs reminded that law enforcement officers, employees of banking and other institutions do not contact citizens on working issues in messengers. If unknown people on the phone demand to make any manipulations with finances (declar, put in a safe account, give the courier), immediately stop the conversation and report it to the police.

The interior Ministry after reports of calls scammers for the day suspended spending operations on 51 accounts