80-year-old woman from Udmurtia traveled to Minsk twice on scammers' orders
Scammers called her on behalf of FSB employees and offered her a paid side job. She had to travel to Belarus and bring a package.
The pensioner from Russia's Volga region, according to her, did not know about the contents of the delivery and did not suspect that she was participating in a fraudulent scheme, reports "Minsk Police".
The first time, the woman completed the task and managed to take about 15 thousand dollars, received from an elderly Minsk woman, out of the country.
Then she returned to Minsk again and near the Opera House met a woman who, using the code word "little bead" (бусінка), handed her about 30 thousand rubles.
After this, the courier was detained. The money was confiscated and will be returned to its owner.
Both victims were scammed by telephone fraudsters and thought they were allegedly declaring their savings at the National Bank.
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