Moscow region police detained an accomplice of online scammers for defrauding pensioners for 2 million rubles

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Employees of the Department for Combating Cybercrime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Moscow region, together with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Leninsky district, detained a 20-year-old native of neighboring countries on suspicion of serial fraud.

According to available information, an unknown person called the mobile phone of a 77-year-old local resident and introduced himself as an employee of one of the law enforcement agencies. During the conversation, the man informed the pensioner that money was transferred from her bank account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For not bringing to criminal responsibility, he demanded to perform actions according to his instructions.

Without stopping the conversation, the excited woman took her savings and went to the taxi that was waiting for her at the house. Having reached the nearest shopping center, she transferred 115 thousand rubles through an ATM to the account specified by the attacker. When the pensioner returned home, the pseudo-law enforcement officer called her again.

This time, he demanded to be informed about the available foreign currency. An elderly woman took US $ 3,600 to her daughter, who was temporarily staying with her, wrapped it in paper and, according to the caller's instructions, handed it to the man who came to collect them. The courier was a migrant detained by the police.

During the search of rented apartments, the police found and seized more than six thousand SIM cards of various operators, four mobile phones, three laptops, SIM banks, GSM gateways and various network equipment.

The attacker explained that in one of the messengers he received an offer to earn money. At the direction of the employer, he had to rearrange SIM cards in the network equipment. For his work, he was paid $ 50 a day and paid for rental housing. On one of the days, the employer reported that he needed to go to the specified address and collect money from the citizen, then exchange it for cryptocurrency and transfer it to the specified electronic account.

On this fact, an investigator of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The Vidnovsky city court chose a preventive measure in the form of remand in custody for the defendant.

The police have reason to believe that the detainee is involved in the commission of a similar crime in Balashikha. The total damage to the two victims amounted to about 2 million rubles.

• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8sCymP19n4

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The Khabarovsk police were contacted by a 77-year-old resident of the Industrial District, from whom telephone scammers stole 2 million rubles under the pretext of saving their savings. He handed over the savings in a grocery store on Krasnorechenskaya Street to an unknown girl.

Employees of the department for solving crimes committed using information and telecommunications technologies, the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Khabarovsk, during a set of operational measures, detained this citizen.

The courier turned out to be a 26-year-old visitor from Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Previously, the malefactor has already been brought to criminal responsibility for similar illegal acts. For seven facts of helping fraudsters, she was given a suspended sentence by a court decision.

According to the detainee, through the messenger, she contacted unknown people and asked them to find earnings that were not related to the commission of crimes. The interlocutors met her halfway, promising that she would not be a courier who participates in deceiving pensioners, but a manager of a crypto exchange. They say that she was assured that she would have to meet with clients of the platform or go to their residential addresses, collect cash and transfer it to the specified banking details.

Employers, according to the malefactor, assured that their activity is absolutely legal. With the money transferred, they allegedly buy cryptocurrency, which they then trade in the interests of investors. For each such operation, she was entitled to a reward. So, for deceiving a 77-year-old pensioner, she received about 50 thousand rubles.

A criminal case was opened on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The defendant was given a preventive measure in the form of recognizance not to leave and proper behavior.

By the way, the next day after contacting the police, an elderly Khabarovsk resident again fell for the trick of telephone scammers, who, calling him, convinced him to take a loan in the amount of 1 million rubles from the bank. The pensioner went to the ATM to transfer cash, but his relatives stopped him and called the police. Thanks to timely intervention, the man was not deceived again.

• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbUCelio6eA
 
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