A resident of Penza gave fraudsters 1.5 million because of “profitable” investments

The police of Penza appealed to a local resident born in 1963. The woman said she was a victim of fraud.

According to the applicant, an unknown person wrote to her in the messenger. She offered additional earnings through investing in foreign currency. The woman was interested and agreed.

Following the instructions of the attacker, the victim installed special applications and created an electronic wallet. After that, she transferred about 1,480,000 rubles to unidentified bank accounts.

The woman has never received a profit from the investment. She tried to get her money back, but she failed. The applicant then found that the correspondence with the stranger had been deleted and that she had ceased to communicate. The woman realized that she had fallen for the trick of a fraudster, and went to the police.

On this fact opened a criminal case under part 4 of article 159 of the criminal code of Russia. The sanction of the article provides for a penalty of imprisonment for up to 10 years.