They had been communicating for two months: in Yekaterinburg retirees sold their apartment and gave all their money to scammers.
Yekaterinburg police detained a 22-year-old courier for telephone scammers. The young man took 11.5 million rubles from an elderly couple and went to Tyumen. He was detained.
The pensioners were on the hook for about two months. In the end they were left without a home.
— It all began back in July with a call from the scammers. They posed as FSB and Central Bank employees and convinced the pensioners that there was a threat from a group of “saboteurs” operating at one of the city’s enterprises. The pensioner (female) had worked at the factory for 40 years and agreed to help the “security services.” To “save” their savings and the money of former colleagues, under pressure the pensioners sold their apartment and withdrew all their savings from the bank, the police said.
They were in contact with the fraudsters for about two months. When the bank suspected something was wrong and called the police, the pensioners promised to stop communicating. But soon the scammers again began to convince the pensioners that the police call was only part of an investigation and that the matter needed to be seen through to the end.
The couple handed over all the cash to the courier. After that all the messages disappeared and the scammers stopped responding. Only then did the spouses realize they had been deceived: they had handed over 6.1 million rubles of savings and 5.4 million rubles from the sale of the apartment.
The courier took the money from the victims and transferred it through a crypto exchange to the scammers’ accounts. A criminal case was opened against the young man under the article “Fraud on a particularly large scale.”
It was previously reported that scammers forced a Sverdlovsk pensioner to sell her apartment. She communicated with them via MAX.
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They had been communicating for two months: in Yekaterinburg retirees sold their apartment and gave all their money to scammers.
Yekaterinburg police detained a 22-year-old courier for phone scammers. The young man took 11.5 million rubles from an elderly couple and went to Tyumen. He was apprehended.