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Fri, 26 April 2024
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The victims, 34 and 27 years old, residents of Kirov, wanted to get easy money for investments.
The first case occurred with a 34-year-old Kirov resident. He lost a total of 3.35 million rubles. He saw an advertisement about profitable investments on the Internet, went to the website and left his contacts. After this, a fake bank representative contacted him and connected him with a fake trader. After registering on the platform, the man began transferring money to exchange it for currency to be credited to an online wallet. To confuse the victim, the scammers even gave the Kirov resident the opportunity to allegedly receive his first income in the amount of 100 thousand rubles. However, it was the victim’s own money. Later, a Kirov resident tried to withdraw 930 thousand rubles, but the site gave him an error. He received a letter in his email stating that for withdrawal he must pay a commission of 41%. The man transferred about 500 thousand rubles. The next day, he received a call from a false representative of the bank, who said that the man had outstanding loans and that in order to cancel the loan burden, he needed to pay another 800 thousand rubles. The Kirov resident listed them too. Only later, when the scammers asked the victim for another million rubles, did he realize that he was being deceived. As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kirov region, the site where the Kirov resident transferred money was created in February and registered in another state.
The second case occurred with a 27-year-old Kirov resident. While communicating on the Internet with a certain interlocutor, the man was offered to invest money in the stock exchange to conduct transactions and generate income. He agreed. At first he received an income of 2 thousand rubles, and later, to increase profitability, he took out several loans. Thus, he transferred just over 3 million rubles to the scammers.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kirov region reported that criminal cases have been opened on both facts. The police are warning Kirov residents to be vigilant and not to react to promises of easy money.
