A resident of the Volgograd region lost 2.3 million when buying a car from abroad
A resident of Mikhailovka lost almost 2.3 million rubles, trying to buy a car through the Internet, a 52-year-old man became a victim of fraud when he was looking for a company to import cars online.
According to the GU of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Volgograd region, he was contacted by an unknown person who introduced himself as an employee of such a company. Under the pretext of full payment for the car, the victim transferred almost 2.3 million rubles to the specified account. After that, the scammers demanded another 150 thousand rubles, and only then the man realized that he was cheated, and went to the police.
The Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the city of Mikhailovka opened a criminal case under part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - fraud on an especially large scale.
The police reminds: before money transfers, it is necessary to carefully check the reliability of the company and study reviews about it, and any requirements for additional payments should be alarming and serve as an excuse to immediately stop communicating with the seller.
