Remote swindlers who rob people under the guise of bank employees, security officials or government service operators have defrauded Vladimir residents out of 400 million rubles in a year
In Vladimir in 2023, 4.6 thousand crimes were registered – of which 2 thousand crimes are related to remote fraud. The Vladimir region police record up to 45 such cases per month, the head of the city department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Colonel Ilya Isachenko, noted at a meeting of the Vladimir City Council. Due to remote scammers, residents of the city of Vladimir lost 400 million rubles last year.
“Prevention of remote fraud in the classic version – door-to-door visits, leaflets – does not bring the mass effect that we expected. But working with credit institutions and the banking sector has become effective. This made it possible to protect residents from transferring a total of 200 million to criminals. Plus, we notice the activity of citizens by calling the duty station that scammers tried to deceive them, but failed.
A common story is a call allegedly from a bank employee with instructions to transfer money to a secure account. We also notice activity with State Services, when scammers try to change the code. Or when scammers call claiming to confirm your mobile operator number or change your tariff,” – gave examples of Isachenko’s fraud.
Messages about the actions of scammers are regularly published by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Vladimir Region. So, last week, in one day, residents of the Vladimir region contacted the police 10 times with reports of money being stolen remotely. In particular, a resident of Vladimir transferred 600 thousand rubles to the scammers, believing in easy money. And in Murom, a man transferred 345 thousand rubles to a “safe account”. It cost a resident of the Kameshkovsky district 30 thousand rubles to cheat on “receiving” her winnings, and a resident of Kolchugino gave 20 thousand to buy clothes that were never delivered.
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