Former financier of Russian company lost 24 million rubles after scammers called
A female financier became a victim of telephone scammers.
A Russian woman believed the scammers and gave them more than 24 million rubles.
Details were reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Voronezh.
A 67-year-old resident of the city was contacted by unknown persons by telephone.
First, a woman called and introduced herself as a former colleague of the Russian woman.
Previously suffered from work as a financier in one of the leading engineering companies in the region.
The swindler reported that all employees of the enterprise were allegedly being checked.
Later, a resident of Voronezh received a call from a man who introduced himself as a law enforcement officer.
He claimed that a money transfer was allegedly made from her account to an unfriendly country.
Then the pensioner received a call from the Central Bank and the Financial Monitoring Service. The scammers managed to convince the woman to transfer all her savings to a "safe" account.
For two weeks, the victim cashed out her savings – $71,000 and 16,000 euros. She handed over this money to the scammers’ courier.
But the scammers did not stop there. They started calling and convincing the woman that someone had allegedly taken out a loan in her name.
This debt needs to be repaid urgently, the scammers said. The pensioner borrowed money from friends and gave it to the courier.
The total amount of damage was 24,351,500 rubles. A criminal case was opened on the fact of fraud.
