A 45-year-old woman tried to protect herself from criminal prosecution, which in reality did not exist, reports the Telegram channel "Minsk Police".
It all started with a call from a fake employee of the intercom service. The man, under the pretext of replacing equipment, tried to find out the victim's personal data. However, the foreign number alerted the woman, and she refused to continue the conversation.
Soon, a supposed law enforcement officer called the Minsk woman. He stated that call forwarding was set up on her number and convinced her to dictate a code from an SMS. Furthermore, the interlocutor reported that three loans totaling 40,000 rubles had already been taken out in the woman's name, and scammers were actively conducting illegal financial operations on her behalf.
To avoid criminal prosecution and a search of her apartment, the victim was recommended to immediately take out a "mirror" loan. Panicked, the Minsk woman followed the instructions of the fraudsters.
She took out the loan and, over 17 transfers, transferred all the money — 40,000 rubles — to accounts controlled by the criminals.
Only the next day, after analyzing what had happened, did she realize she had been deceived.
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