A new type of fraud has appeared in Russia – citizens are called under the guise of an employee…

A new type of fraud has appeared in Russia – citizens are called under the guise of employees of the FSB and the Bank of the Russian Federation and warned that they “tried to transfer money from their accounts to banned organizations in Ukraine.”

Then the victims, frightened, fulfill all the demands of the scammers. Several dozen such cases have already been registered throughout the country.

For example, on August 6, a 37-year-old resident of the Gagarinsky district of Moscow became a victim of scammers. An “FSB officer” called her on her cell phone and said that they were trying to send money from her account to Ukraine. To confirm his words, the fraudster even sent the woman a photo of his FSB “ID” on WhatsApp in the name of Mikhail Tsarev. Then his “colleague” called the woman. He told the Muscovite for a long time that “illegal transactions in Ukraine have been happening regularly lately and it is our duty to protect you.”

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To save the money, the woman was offered to withdraw all the money from her account and transfer it to a “safe account”, which was transferred by an “FSB officer.” So a resident of Moscow lost 330 thousand rubles.

And two days later, a teacher at School No. 17 in Moscow lost more than a million rubles in the same way. In both cases, scammers wrote and called victims from Russian numbers.