Scammers forced a pensioner from Sverdlovsk to sell her apartment. She communicated with them via MAX.

Scammers forced a pensioner from Sverdlovsk to sell her apartment. She communicated with them via MAX.

      In Revda, a 65-year-old pensioner was scammed through the national messenger MAX. The fraudsters forced her to sell her apartment and deprived her of all her savings.

      The woman received a call via MAX and was offered to install a "smart" intercom. When she agreed, she was asked to give the code from an SMS. More calls followed; the elderly woman from the Urals was then frightened with claims that, supposedly to prevent the sale of her apartment, it was urgently necessary to re-register the apartment.

      The woman photographed the interior of the flat and sent the pictures. For several days real estate agents visited the pensioner, and a buyer was found. On October 9 the transaction was completed at an MFC; the buyer gave the pensioner 1,785,000 rubles and arranged to collect the keys.

      — Neither the buyer nor the real estate agency knew they had become part of a fraudulent scheme, and the pensioner was convinced she was saving her property, the Revda police clarified.

      The woman transferred the money to the account specified by the fraudsters. She then deleted the correspondence and the downloaded apps from her phone. The next day the con artists messaged the Ural woman that it was all over for her. She then went to the police, E1.RU reports.

      Earlier in Yekaterinburg an elderly woman handed over 10 million rubles to scammers after being frightened into thinking she was helping terrorists.

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Scammers forced a pensioner from Sverdlovsk to sell her apartment. She communicated with them via MAX.

Scammers forced a pensioner from Sverdlovsk to sell her apartment. She communicated with them via MAX.