Over the weekend, residents of Buryatia lost more than 456 thousand rubles due to fraudsters

Over the weekend, 12 crimes using IT technologies were registered in Buryatia. Seven of them are related to cyber fraud, two with theft of funds from bank accounts, one with the hacking of an account on the State Services portal and two with illegal access to computer information.

The total damage amounted to 456 671 rubles, of which 401 771 rubles lost residents of Ulan-Ude. Residents of the capital of the republic, Kabansky and Pribaikalsky districts suffered from the actions of the attackers. The most common victims were employed women between the ages of 17 and 30.

In Ulan-Ude, two residents became victims of remote fraudsters and in total lost 110 thousand rubles. In the Railway area, a woman downloaded from the app store a program to create hairstyles on a link received in an unknown group of messengers. After installation, the application caused the device to freeze, and 92 thousand rubles were written off from the bank account.

Another case occurred with a minor resident of the Oktyabrsky district. He decided to buy an account in a popular online game as a gift to his sister. After the transfer to the seller of 10 thousand rubles, he demanded additional payment, citing an error in the payment, and then reported an increase in the price. As a result, the total damage amounted to 18 thousand rubles.