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- Messages
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The scammers convinced her to take out loans and sell her apartment.
At the end of June 2024, 69-year-old Elena (name changed) received a message on Telegram from an unknown number. The sender introduced himself as the deputy director of the theater Milena Avimskaya. During the conversation, Avimskaya told Elena that there was a data leak in the theater and the savings of employees were at risk. But everything is under control: an employee of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation will contact Elena and give instructions on how to save the money. The woman agreed, received a call from the "Central Bank employee", and he acted according to the old scheme - he convinced the woman that they were trying to apply for a loan for her and that in order to get ahead of the fraudsters, she needed to take a loan herself, and transfer the money to a safe account. Elena agreed and did everything.
In August, Elena received another call, but this time from the FSB. They told the woman that, among other things, it was thanks to her competent actions and assistance to the investigation that Avimskaya was appointed to the post of director. However, they said that Elena's property was still under threat and it was necessary to urgently sell her apartment on Butyrskaya Street. The deal, of course, will be fictitious: the apartment will be given to her after the criminals are caught. Elena believed and began to urgently look for a buyer. Soon there were buyers: in early October, Elena sold an apartment to two residents of Udmurtia for 12 million rubles. Two weeks later, the new owners registered the property, and Elena received her money. She put all the funds in a bag and handed over to the courier at the behest of the "FSB officer".
Only when Elena was asked to move out of her apartment, she realized that she had become a victim of scammers. The total damage amounted to 13,460,000 rubles.
At the end of June 2024, 69-year-old Elena (name changed) received a message on Telegram from an unknown number. The sender introduced himself as the deputy director of the theater Milena Avimskaya. During the conversation, Avimskaya told Elena that there was a data leak in the theater and the savings of employees were at risk. But everything is under control: an employee of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation will contact Elena and give instructions on how to save the money. The woman agreed, received a call from the "Central Bank employee", and he acted according to the old scheme - he convinced the woman that they were trying to apply for a loan for her and that in order to get ahead of the fraudsters, she needed to take a loan herself, and transfer the money to a safe account. Elena agreed and did everything.
In August, Elena received another call, but this time from the FSB. They told the woman that, among other things, it was thanks to her competent actions and assistance to the investigation that Avimskaya was appointed to the post of director. However, they said that Elena's property was still under threat and it was necessary to urgently sell her apartment on Butyrskaya Street. The deal, of course, will be fictitious: the apartment will be given to her after the criminals are caught. Elena believed and began to urgently look for a buyer. Soon there were buyers: in early October, Elena sold an apartment to two residents of Udmurtia for 12 million rubles. Two weeks later, the new owners registered the property, and Elena received her money. She put all the funds in a bag and handed over to the courier at the behest of the "FSB officer".
Only when Elena was asked to move out of her apartment, she realized that she had become a victim of scammers. The total damage amounted to 13,460,000 rubles.
