Yekaterinburg police saved a grandfather who fell under the influence of scammers.
Yekaterinburg police saved a grandfather who fell under the influence of scammers
June 6, 2026 In Yekaterinburg, police saved a grandfather who fell under the influence of scammers. This was reported by the press group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Yekaterinburg.
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Everything happened in the Oktyabrsky district. The fraudsters were extorting money from the pensioner under the guise of employees of the electric grid company. Law enforcement had to convince the grandfather for three hours that he was being deceived.
— We need to draft a contract based on which we will check your meter. It turned out that I had given them a code, which they used to hack my "Gosuslugi" account. They started blackmailing me. I fell for all this, went to the bank for money to hand over to the scammers. Police from department No. 7 intercepted me in time and took my phone, the pensioner noted.
They saved another pensioner from selling jewelry. Unfortunately, the 85-year-old woman has no close relatives, so a local police officer took her under his care, reports "KP-Yekaterinburg."
Earlier, we reported how a teenager from Novaya Lyalya thwarted the scammers' plans by overhearing their conversation in a minibus.
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Yekaterinburg police saved a grandfather who fell under the influence of scammers.
In Yekaterinburg, police saved a grandfather who fell under the influence of scammers. This was reported by the press group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Yekaterinburg. It all happened in the Oktyabrsky district.