Fraudsters forced schoolgirl to help them steal more than $10,000 from Minsk woman

Scammers deceived and intimidated tenth-grader from the capital to take 4.6 thousand dollars and 6 thousand euros from another victim – a 77-year-old pensioner, the correspondent of the agency “Minsk-Novosti” with reference to the Telegram channel “Minsk Police”.

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Unknown contacted an elderly Minsk woman, assuring her of the upcoming recalculation of pensions, as well as convincing her to prepare savings for rechecking banknotes. They had to be handed over to the courier. They became a high school girl, from whom the attackers lured the SMS code. After that, they intimidated the girl with criminal liability for allegedly cooperating with criminals. She was forbidden to tell her parents anything, threatening to accuse them of complicity. The schoolgirl put the money in a hiding place.

On this fact, the guards conduct an inspection.