A pensioner from Sevastopol lost 407 thousand rubles after talking on a social network with a scammer who pretended to be her son. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Sevastopol, the offender created a copy of the page of his son living abroad on a social network.
From a fake page, a 75-year-old woman received a message that her son was supposedly going to transfer money to her as a gift. To do this, the pensioner was asked for bank card details, a password and a pin code. She passed on confidential information to the scammer without hesitation, who then bled her account.
The police have filed a case and are looking for the perpetrator.
The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said that if a request is received through social networks from relatives or friends to transfer money, the first thing to do is to make sure that it was they who wrote the message. You can contact by phone or other means. In any case, you should not disclose your bank card or account details, passwords and pin codes to anyone.