In Sumy region, the police are looking for scammers who lured hundreds of thousands of hryvnias from citizens of the region during the day.

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Ten residents of the region lost their savings by trusting unknown persons in phone conversations and correspondence on the Internet, who promised them the unblocking of allegedly blocked accounts and monetary assistance.

In Sumy, a 42-year-old local resident suffered from the criminal actions of fraudsters. The man was called allegedly by an "employee of the bank's financial monitoring service" and informed about the blocking of his account. Zatim asked to name the numbers from the SMS message, which is supposedly a code to unlock his account. The man followed the instructions of an unknown interlocutor, and later found out that about 40,000 hryvnias were withdrawn from his account.

A young Sumchan woman, in the Telegram messenger, read a message addressed to her, allegedly from a bank representative, about restrictions on her charity "bank". The unknown interlocutor promised the woman to solve this problem. Then the attacker asked to tell him the numbers that the account owner indicates to log in to the app. The applicant complied with the request and almost immediately discovered that her bank card had been debited money in the amount of more than 30 000 hryvnia.

In Sumy, a 58-year-old woman, believing a fraudster who introduced himself by phone as a bank service employee, lost almost 80,000 thousand hryvnias in an instant. The criminal managed to convince the Sumchanka that scammers are now trying to steal money from her accounts and, under the pretext of "saving" funds, forced the woman to transfer money to another account, from which they really disappeared.

Exactly the same crime was committed against a 31-year-old resident of Konotop. An unknown man, who introduced himself as a representative of the bank, also informed her about fraudsters and the need to transfer money to a secure account. The woman lost 23,000 hryvnias as a result of this fraudulent transaction.

Under the pretext of clarifying information about the cardholder, an unknown person, introducing himself by phone as "an employee of the bank's security service", begged an 85-year-old woman from the Sum of all the information he needed and took possession of money in the amount of 9 050 hryvnia.

In Romny, a 48-year-old woman, following an Internet link under the pretext of receiving financial assistance allegedly from the Red Cross NGO in the amount of UAH 8,800, indicated her personal data and her bank card details. Immediately after that, her funds were debited in the amount of UAH 4,225.

And in the Shostkinsky district, a criminal on duty, who introduced himself by phone as a bank employee, told a 48-year-old woman that she had received assistance in the amount of 6,600 hryvnias, and in order to receive it, you need to name four numbers that will be sent in an SMS message. After receiving an SMS message, the owner of the card called the man the numbers from the SMS and disconnected from the conversation. And after some time, she received a notification about the write-off of 36 654 hryvnia of her own savings.

According to all citizens 'complaints about crimes, the police opened criminal proceedings under Part 4 of Article 190 "Fraud" of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Investigative actions continue.
 
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