38-year-old resident of Komi transferred all his savings to scammers

In the police Department “Pechora” turned 38-year-old local resident with a complaint of deception. He said that he received a message about a possible hacking of his account on “State Services”, where the number for communication was indicated. Calling him, the man heard from the interlocutor that his data was used to issue a power of attorney for other people’s actions with property and money.

Callers, posing as employees of the Central Bank and the FSB, persuaded him to transfer all savings to several accounts, promising that they will fall into a “single protected account”, and he will get access to it within the day. However, the code and password never came, after which the victim went to the police. The damage exceeded 500 thousand rubles. On this fact, the investigator opened a criminal case under Part 3 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.