
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation published a video of the work of a foreign fraudulent call center, which deceived pensioners by posing as their relatives and reporting a false accident with the threat of criminal liability in order to lure money through a courier.
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Fraudulent call centers operating from overseas often use the "relative in trouble" scheme to deceive older people by impersonating their loved ones and reporting false emergencies.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs showed a video of the work of a foreign fraudulent call center that deceived Russians using the “relative in trouble” scheme.
MOSCOW, October 2 - RIA Novosti. The department for organizing the fight against illegal use of information and communication technologies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation showed a video of the work of a foreign fraudulent call center that deceived Russians using the “relative in trouble” scheme.
The video published in the management channel at Max shows a room in which a foreign fraudulent call center is located.
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“Young people and girls called pensioners and introduced themselves as their closest relatives: sons, daughters, grandchildren, and then reported that they were the culprits of an accident in which people were injured, and now they were threatened with criminal liability,” the report says.

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