A fraudulent courier who stole 3.5 million rubles from pensioners was detained on Sakhalin

Brief retelling from RIA II

A 21-year-old resident of the Novosibirsk region was detained on Sakhalin, who stole 3.5 million rubles from local pensioners in the interests of remote scammers.

The young man acted as a courier and in two days caused two pensioners to lose more than 2.7 million rubles.

Criminal cases have been initiated against the courier under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud), the stolen money will be returned to the rightful owners.

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, September 30 - RIA Novosti. The police detained a 21-year-old resident of the Novosibirsk region on Sakhalin, who stole 3.5 million rubles from local pensioners in the interests of remote scammers, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region reports.

According to the department, the young man specially flew from the mainland to the island to act as a courier in the interests of remote scammers to steal savings from senior citizens. In two days, two pensioners suffered at the hands of cybercriminals and their assistants and lost more than 2.7 million rubles.

“Operatives caught a visiting guest performer red-handed in Nevelsk while he was receiving about 740 thousand rubles from another victim of the scam - an 85-year-old local resident. The total damage to the three victims amounted to about 3.5 million rubles,” says a message in the department’s channel on the Max platform.

It has been previously established that foreign scammers acted according to the classic scheme: they called pensioners and convinced them to transfer cash for declaration or to help relatives in trouble.