Fraudsters defrauded the widow of a SVO participant from Arzamas out of 4 million rubles

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, September 27 - RIA Novosti. The police are looking for scammers who deceived the widow of a participant in a special military operation from Arzamas, who transferred to them her savings and payments in the amount of more than 4 million rubles, reported the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

“The scheme began with a call: an unknown person said that the family of the deceased was entitled to additional payments. Then another “employee” convinced the widow to withdraw money from the account before it was written off. When the woman followed the instructions, the scammers said that the bills were marked and they needed to be handed over to a Rosfinmonitoring employee for verification,” the department said.

The woman gave the money to a stranger near her house. After some time, she realized that she had been deceived and contacted the police. The total damage amounted to more than 4 million rubles. A criminal case has been initiated under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale).