A retired woman from Yekaterinburg learned to use Google Meet for 6.5 million rubles.
Six and a half million rubles were swindled from an Yekaterinburg pensioner by fraudsters via the popular video service Google Meet. Photo: Only after finishing the transfers did the pensioner tell her relatives what had happened. piqsels.com
Fraudsters are not giving up attempts to contact their victims via video calls. After restrictions on calls through popular messengers, scammers are looking for alternative contact methods, note the press relations department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Yekaterinburg. Recently they left a 70-year-old woman without 6.5 million rubles.
A local resident born in 1954 went to the police on September 12. The victim reported the theft of 6,634,000 rubles from her.
As the pensioner explained, she received a call from an unknown woman who introduced herself as Krylova, an employee of Rosfinmonitoring. The scammer told the woman that her personal account on Gosuslugi had been hacked. Then "Krylova" sent the pensioner a link to a video call on Google Meet and said that all further communication would take place there.
Soon a fake FSB officer calling himself "Yegorov" contacted the victim and said that the woman's personal savings could be stolen and transferred to the benefit of unfriendly states. "Yegorov" strongly recommended that she cash out all her bank savings and transfer them to a safe account that he would specify.
Frightened, the woman immediately went to the bank, where she withdrew all her money from her accounts, totaling more than six and a half million rubles. She told bank employees that she wanted to close the deposit and open it in another credit institution. After that, the woman transferred all the money to card numbers dictated by "Yegorov."
Only after finishing the transfers did the pensioner tell her relatives about what had happened.
A criminal case has been opened into the theft of funds under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud on a particularly large scale").
The police once again remind that, despite the sophistication of scammers, they can be thwarted by the simplest rules:
1. Do not talk to strangers on the phone;
2. Do not disclose any personal data or codes to outsiders;
3. Do not transfer or hand over money to unknown persons;
4. Verify personally all information received by phone.
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A retired woman from Yekaterinburg learned to use Google Meet for 6.5 million rubles.
Scammers conned six and a half million rubles out of a Yekaterinburg pensioner via the popular video-conferencing service Google Meet. The scammers haven't stopped trying to contact their victims via video.