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The Grodno Interdistrict Department of the Investigative Committee is establishing the circumstances of another Internet fraud committed on an especially large scale.
According to the investigation, in February of this year, a man wrote to a 33-year-old resident of the regional center on Skype. A pen pal said that he was a member of the US Army, and was currently in Yemen. During the conversation, the new acquaintance shared the details of his life, said that he himself was divorced, and he had a little daughter at home.
For four months, the man showed the victim signs of attention, and after the communication became trusting, he asked to write a statement that she was his fiancée. Allegedly, this step would allow them to terminate the contract and return to their daughter as soon as possible, to which the resident of Hrodna agreed.
And when the scammers realized that the woman was "on the hook" for them, they sent a letter to the latter's mail, which reported the detention of a friend. To release the man, it was necessary to pay bail. Worried about the fate of her acquaintance, a resident of Grodno began to look for funds for their subsequent transfer to the specified account.
After that, the scammers continued to cynically deceive the woman, indicating that the soldier was in the hospital and it was necessary to pay for his treatment. At the same time, for greater persuasiveness, the newly-made friend himself confirmed the fact of being in the hospital.
The woman, taking everything at face value, transferred more than 90 thousand rubles to the crypto wallet specified in the letter in several stages.
It should be noted that for the credibility of the invented story, the soldier gave the victim the login and password from her personal account in Internet banking, which, of course, was blocked, all correspondence was conducted in English and the man promised to return the transferred money. The miracle did not happen, the woman realized that the new acquaintance turned out to be a fraudster, which she reported to the police.
The Grodno Interdistrict Department of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on this fact under Part 4. Article 209 (fraud committed on an especially large scale) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. At present, the victim has been interrogated, computer equipment has been examined, information about the accounts to which the funds were transferred has been requested, a set of investigative actions and operational-search measures is being carried out to identify the person who committed this crime.
According to the investigation, in February of this year, a man wrote to a 33-year-old resident of the regional center on Skype. A pen pal said that he was a member of the US Army, and was currently in Yemen. During the conversation, the new acquaintance shared the details of his life, said that he himself was divorced, and he had a little daughter at home.
For four months, the man showed the victim signs of attention, and after the communication became trusting, he asked to write a statement that she was his fiancée. Allegedly, this step would allow them to terminate the contract and return to their daughter as soon as possible, to which the resident of Hrodna agreed.
And when the scammers realized that the woman was "on the hook" for them, they sent a letter to the latter's mail, which reported the detention of a friend. To release the man, it was necessary to pay bail. Worried about the fate of her acquaintance, a resident of Grodno began to look for funds for their subsequent transfer to the specified account.
After that, the scammers continued to cynically deceive the woman, indicating that the soldier was in the hospital and it was necessary to pay for his treatment. At the same time, for greater persuasiveness, the newly-made friend himself confirmed the fact of being in the hospital.
The woman, taking everything at face value, transferred more than 90 thousand rubles to the crypto wallet specified in the letter in several stages.
It should be noted that for the credibility of the invented story, the soldier gave the victim the login and password from her personal account in Internet banking, which, of course, was blocked, all correspondence was conducted in English and the man promised to return the transferred money. The miracle did not happen, the woman realized that the new acquaintance turned out to be a fraudster, which she reported to the police.
The Grodno Interdistrict Department of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on this fact under Part 4. Article 209 (fraud committed on an especially large scale) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. At present, the victim has been interrogated, computer equipment has been examined, information about the accounts to which the funds were transferred has been requested, a set of investigative actions and operational-search measures is being carried out to identify the person who committed this crime.
