Actress of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater Maria Zorina was scammed out of 20 million on behalf of the deputy head of the Moscow Department of Culture

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She sold her apartment and car to send money to the scammers.

At the end of September, Maria received a call on Telegram: the man introduced himself as the deputy head of the Department of Culture, Sergei Perov, and said that the data of cultural workers had been leaked. Because of this, the women's account was hacked, the money needs to be saved urgently. Maria was immediately instructed: she would have to withdraw all her savings and transfer them to a special savings account.

The actress was clearly scared - she withdrew money from all her cards and transferred 1.8 million to the account that was dictated to her. After that, the scammers persuaded her to take out a loan for 183 thousand. The scam did not end there; the intimidation and advice to hide the money continued in October. Maria constantly withdrew and transferred large sums to unknown people: sometimes 878 thousand, then 3 million, then another 400 thousand.

The culmination was Maria’s apartment: in November she was told that the scammers had already sold her home on General Antonov Street and she needed to carry out another transaction in order to return the property to themselves. A buyer was found quickly - Maria went to a notary, sold the apartment, and put the 12 million she received back into a “savings account.”

The apartment was followed by a car - in early December, the scammers convinced Maria to sell her BMW. She transferred all the money from the sale to the same savings account and only after that she realized that all this time she had been communicating with scammers. The amount of damage is 19,822,000 rubles.
 
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