Minsk Resident Took Time Off Work to Take Out Two Loans and Hand Over 50 Thousand Dollars to Scammers
Part of the money she handed over in her car to an unknown girl, and the rest — to another man.
A 48-year-old woman contacted the police. She explained that the perpetrators called her from a foreign number and asked for a code from an SMS message. After that, they informed her that illegal financial operations were being carried out in her name, according to "Minsk Police".
To save her personal savings, the woman was advised to "declare" them through an unofficial employee of the National Bank. To make it convincing, they sent the Minsk resident fake documents with non-existent addresses and details. She believed them and handed over 20 thousand dollars to a courier.
The next day, she was advised to take time off work and take out two loans in her name so that the scammers couldn't do it on her behalf. The woman again followed the instructions and received about 60 thousand rubles from the bank. Part of the money she handed over in her car to an unknown girl, and the rest — to a man.
After some time, the perpetrators again contacted the Minsk resident and advised her to sell her car to "save it from being sold on the black market". The woman received about 7 thousand dollars for the car and also handed them over to a courier, supposedly for verification. Until the very end, she told no one about the situation and told her son that the car was in for service.
The woman only realized that she had become a victim of scammers when they stopped contacting her.
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