Former professor of the University of Mordovia fell for the bait of fraudsters
The man, on the instructions of the scammers, sold the foreign car and, under the pretext of canceling the loan, transferred more than 2 million rubles to the scammers.
On the eve of the duty part of the inter-municipal department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia “Lyambirsky” received an application from a 72-year-old pensioner who previously worked as a professor in one of the Saran higher educational institutions. He said that he had stolen 2 million 235 thousand rubles.
According to the victim, in the early days of September in one of the messengers he received a notification from the account, called “Public Services”, about the existing debt. The man followed the link indicated in the message, where the contact of technical support was placed. Then the conversation continued with a man who introduced himself as an employee of Rosfinmonitoring, and another who called himself a representative of the FSB. During the video call, they showed the pensioner their ID and convinced him to buy a new smartphone for further contacts.
In the course of communication, the fraudsters said that it is urgent to independently close the debt. Then the man withdrew one million rubles from the account and, using the QR code sent to him, transferred these funds to an unknown person. After some time, the scammers contacted him again, claiming that the loan had not yet been repaid, and demanded a new payment. Then the pensioner sold his car “Toyota Rav 4” and transferred to the attackers more than 1 million 200 thousand rubles received from the transaction. A few days later, realizing the deception, he went to the police.
