In Astrakhan fraudsters cheated four citizens almost a million rubles
In the Kirov and Trusov districts of Astrakhan, new cases of remote fraud have been registered. Four local residents were victims of intruders acting under the pretext of investing, receiving cashback and buying an electric guitar. The total amount of damage exceeded 940 thousand rubles. Criminal proceedings have been initiated on all facts.
The first to contact the police veterinarian born in 1973. Unknown, posing as the operator of an investment company, convinced the woman to apply for an online loan and transfer 837,532 rubles (credit funds and personal savings) to an unidentified account. The fraudster also insisted on an additional transfer of 410 thousand rubles, but the victim refused.
Another astrakhanka, born in 1990, reported that on the Internet unknown, calling himself a broker, under the pretext of earning on investments stole 23,500 rubles of personal savings. The woman transferred money through a mobile application. The attacker demanded another million rubles, but she stopped communicating.
The third case concerns a local resident born in 1954. He got a phone call from a fake bank employee and, under the pretext of receiving a cashback, lured 67,500 rubles. The man dictated his card number and SMS code, after which the money was written off to someone else’s account.
In the Trusov district, the victim of the fraudster was a young man born in 2003. Under the pretext of buying an electric guitar, he said by phone the card data and the code from SMS, losing 12,000 rubles of personal savings.
The police reminds: do not tell strangers card details and codes from SMS, do not transfer money to dubious accounts and do not trust promises of quick earnings on the Internet.
Read about the events in the Astrakhan and Volgograd regions in the paper number "MK in Volgograd".
