Vileyka resident feared accusation of financing the AFU and gave scammers over 126 thousand rubles

It all started with a phone call that seemed like a formality to him, but ultimately turned into a multi-step fraudulent scheme, writes kraj.by.

On February 12, the man received a call from a foreign number — its code differed from the Belarusian one by just one digit, so no suspicions arose. The caller introduced herself as an employee of the energy sales company and reported a supposedly overdue service under a contract. The offer to formalize a new contract remotely seemed convenient.

During the conversation, the man dictated his passport identification number. As it later turned out, this was precisely where the implementation of the fraudulent scheme began.

After some time, he was contacted via Viber by a man who introduced himself as an employee of the Investigative Committee of Belarus. He stated that the victim's passport data was in the hands of fraudsters and that loans were already being issued in his name, allegedly intended for financing the AFU.

To intensify the pressure, fake representatives of the National Bank joined the conversation. To questions about the speed of loan processing, they did not answer directly, only insisted on the urgency of solving the problem.

The culmination was a demand to report the presence of cash at home. Under the pretext of a future search and possible confiscation, the man was persuaded to hand over the funds to an "extra-staff employee" for delivery to Minsk and subsequent declaration.

Following the instructions of the curators, he packed 30.9 thousand dollars and 26 thousand rubles into opaque bags and handed them over to a stranger in his city.

The next day, the attackers again made contact and found out that the man's elderly mother also had savings. Under the same pretext of "declaration," he was persuaded to transfer another 12 thousand rubles through an info kiosk.

The fraudsters insisted on splitting the payments to avoid blocking operations. The victim made a series of transfers of one thousand rubles each.

On February 14, the scammers demanded a personal visit to the capital to "close issues related to loans." On the way to the specified address, the man got into a car accident.

Being in a stressful state, he reported this to the "curator," who demanded that he immediately delete the correspondence in Viber. It was this demand that aroused suspicion. A relative who arrived at the scene of the accident noticed his behavior and helped him understand the situation.

As a result, the man lost more than 126 thousand rubles.

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