Pensioner from Masty gives 110 thousand rubles and her own car to fraudsters
Telephone fraudsters kept a 65-year-old woman on the line for almost a week, intimidating her with drug money and criminal liability. As a result, the victim not only emptied her home savings but also sold her car.
The scheme began with a traditional call, allegedly from the post office on April 2: "You have received a parcel, please provide your Viber number."
Half an hour later, "specialists" from the State Control Committee joined the game. The legend was that accounts had been opened in the pensioner's name for laundering money obtained from prostitution and drug sales. To avoid prison, the cash had to be urgently declared.
"They didn't leave me alone for a minute. The phone was constantly connected via Viber; they forbade me to disconnect it so that I wouldn't tell anyone anything or talk to anyone," the woman recalls.
Under this pressure, the woman handed over the first part of the money to a courier who introduced himself as an employee of the National Bank's settlement center.
The fraudsters didn't stop there. The next day, she was informed that her car was put up for auction and needed to be sold, and the money again "declared." The woman complied, handing over the entire sum received to the criminals. Thus, she lost about 110 thousand Belarusian rubles.
On Wednesday, the fraudsters promised that a representative of the State Control Committee would come to her at 4:00 PM, returning both the money and the car. However, when the "curators'" phone was constantly busy, and the promised delegation did not appear, the pensioner realized she had been robbed.
The police detained the courier who collected the money, but it had already moved further down the criminal chain.
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