In the Crimea detained 18-year-old resident of the Khabarovsk Territory, who worked as a courier of fraudsters

Police detained an 18-year-old resident of the Khabarovsk Territory, suspected of participating in a fraudulent scheme. A 39-year-old resident of the Nizhnegorsk district was stolen 2 million rubles, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Crimea reported.

According to police, the scheme began with a call from a man who introduced himself as a social fund employee. Under the pretext of help, he received the numbers of the victim and her mother.

Then a false employee of the security service of the portal “Public Services” called and reported the hacking of the account. After that, the woman was connected to a man who called himself a law enforcement officer.

Under the pretext of “declaring” a large amount, he forced her to talk about savings. Under pressure, the woman and her husband came to Simferopol. A young man met them there. He pronounced the code word “basket”, after which the husband handed him a package of money.

The identity of the courier was quickly established. According to him, he found part-time work through a relative in social networks: he received geolocation, descriptions of people, code words and instructions from the organizers. The curator rented him hotel rooms in Sevastopol in advance.

Having received the money and handed them over to a third person in Sevastopol, the courier, on the instructions of the curator, went to the Krasnodar Territory, where he was detained on the way.

A criminal case was opened on the fact of fraud on an especially large scale. The suspect is in custody. The police continue to search for all those involved in the crime.

The scheme with the “declaration” of savings remains one of the most common in the Crimea. In October 2026 in Simferopol sent to court the case of a 19-year-old resident of Novosibirsk, who worked as a courier in a group of remote fraudsters.

Two retired women born in 1964 and 1942 were told they needed to declare their savings and hand over their savings, promising to return the money later. The victims gave the accused 800 and 674 thousand rubles.

At the same time, in October 2026, an 18-year-old courier and a 19-year-old organizer were detained in Simferopol, involved in defrauding a 77-year-old pensioner for 1.4 million rubles: a man handed over money at the entrance after a message from a false tax officer.

In March 2026, the police detained a 20-year-old resident of Sevastopol, who took more than 517 thousand rubles from a 76-year-old pensioner after a call from a perjured FSB employee. In June 2026, an 80-year-old resident of the Simferopol district gave an 18-year-old courier from Cherepovets more than 700 thousand rubles under the same pretext.