A prisoner of the Ulyanovsk colony with the help of a dating site “extracted” millions of rubles from women from different regions of Russia. He hooked them with stories about a fat wallet, which he easily convinced them with a fake picture of a bank account from the phone screen.
An almost trouble-free criminal scheme was invented by a prisoner of the Ulyanovsk colony serving a sentence for robbery and crimes against sexual integrity. With the help of a smartphone, he started fake accounts on dating sites and found potential victims from different regions of Russia, to whom he deftly blew dust in the eyes.
“The attacker presented himself as a co-founder of a bank or a wealthy businessman,” she told reporters official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Irina Volk. – In the process of communication, he informed his new acquaintances about problems with withdrawing money from accounts and offered to temporarily transfer them two million US dollars. As proof, the prisoner sent a fake screenshot of his smartphone, on which an account for the specified amount was opened in the banking application.
When the gullible lady swallowed the bait, the crook allegedly asked her to send her personal data, including a photo of her passport and bank card, to transfer the currency. Thanks to the information he received, he entered the mobile applications of banks and issued large loans to his victims. In addition, the man bred them for substantial sums, which he persuaded them to transfer under the guise of a commission for a banking operation. He transferred all the stolen goods to the accounts of his relatives and acquaintances. But the police from Volgograd, together with colleagues from the Kostroma and Ulyanovsk regions, exposed everyone.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Volgograd Region has opened a criminal case on the grounds of crimes provided for in Articles 158 and 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. During the joint operation, police officers and employees of the Rosgvardiya conducted searches of citizens through whose accounts the stolen money was cashed. As a result, more than a million rubles, bank cards, communications equipment and other items important for the investigation were seized. So far, we know about four episodes of fraudulent actions with a total damage of more than two million rubles, but according to the results of investigations of such crimes, there may be much more.