In Yekaterinburg, fraudsters stole more than 12 million rubles from teenagers.

      On August 1, 2026, in Yekaterinburg, fraudsters stole over 12 million rubles from seven teenagers in just one week. The victims were young people aged 14 to 19.

      Photo: UMVD of Yekaterinburg

      In one case, the fraudsters convinced an 18-year-old girl to hand over 1.4 million rubles to a courier, while in another case, a resident of Yekaterinburg transferred 1.1 million rubles of her parents' savings to the fraudsters for a "safe account."

      — In the Railway District of Yekaterinburg, three young people lost a total of over 10.5 million rubles. The criminals implemented a multi-stage scheme of theft, the press group of the UMVD for Yekaterinburg clarified.

      One of the victims was a 19-year-old technical college student. The fraudsters told him he needed to undergo a medical examination to enroll in a university. The young man was convinced to provide a code, after which he received a call from a fake employee of the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation. The caller claimed that the student's State Services account had allegedly been hacked and redirected him to a video call with a fake FSB employee. He persuaded the young man to withdraw 8.6 million rubles from family savings and hand it over to a courier. The fraudsters also forced a teenage girl to become a courier, collect money from the student, and add 1.6 million of her own savings to that amount. Another student, who had come from another city, was similarly deceived and transferred 205 thousand rubles to the fraudsters. It was previously reported that a pensioner in Yekaterinburg gave 7.5 million rubles to fraudsters.