A Saratov woman believed in bonuses from a gold mining company and lost 1 million rubles

In Krasnoarmeysk, Saratov Region, a 66-year-old woman believed in making money from advertising gold mining companies and encountered scammers. The details were provided by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region.

The woman told the police that in January she received a message from a stranger who told her that she had received bonuses in the amount of 150 thousand rubles. This message did not surprise her, because earlier on the Internet, looking for ways to make money, she registered on a special website. The platform allegedly belonged to a company that was engaged in buying up abandoned gold mines. A resident of Krasnoarmeysk believed that she could make money by advertising this company.

In order to withdraw the “received bonuses,” the interlocutor recommended that she make transfers of personal funds. As a result, acting on instructions from unknown persons, the victim transferred more than 1 million rubles to unknown accounts from January to April.

Also, several more residents of Saratov fell for the bait of telephone scammers, and gave them a total of 5 million rubles. Thus, in the Volzhsky region, an 88-year-old woman believed an “employee of a financial institution” and transferred 2 million rubles to unknown accounts. In the Kirovsky district, a 20-year-old guy was convinced to take out a loan and transfer 2 million to a “safe account”, and a 46-year-old woman from the Oktyabrsky district lost 675 thousand rubles.

For all these cases of fraud, criminal cases were opened under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.