New fraud scheme: scammers tracked down at least five people
In Sumy region, a 45-year-old man contacted the police and reported that he had been deceived by scammers.
In the messenger “Whatsapp” the victim received a message about the opportunity to earn online. After clicking on the link to the messenger “Telegram”, the man began to perform tasks on one of the sites, namely to buy out goods. The funds invested for this were returned to him with interest.
After completing several successful tasks, the citizen transferred funds in the amount of 8 thousand 395 hryvnias to the bank cards indicated to him. This is where all his earnings ended: the money disappeared.
Meanwhile, another marsupial, 28 years old, told the police that an unknown person named Marina wrote to him in the Telegram messenger, who offered an online job. Namely, go to the link to the specified sites, register and buy goods. After that, the applicant began to transfer his own funds, a total of 18 thousand 300 hryvnias, for the purchase of goods on bank cards unknown to him. After the transfer, the money was allegedly credited to the applicant's account on the site, and from this account he had already paid for the selected goods.
After that, the man returned the goods to the site, and the amount was allegedly credited to the site account by 20% more. But the money is supposedly somewhere, but a man cannot get and return it back.
In addition, another 40-year-old sumchanka, according to a similar scheme, “buying out with her own funds and returning the goods back with a surcharge”, made the purchase of virtual goods for the amount of 1 thousand 580 hryvnias. Her money was not returned and blocked in Telegram.
Among the deceived is a young resident of Shostka. In the same messenger, I found a group called “Video Workgroups”, where it was necessary to perform various tasks. For example, “browse posts in Tik Tok and take screenshots.”
For two days, the woman conscientiously performed the task and allegedly received funds into the account. Then she was told that she needed to add her mentor and write a recommendation code, after which she began to work with some virtual “Oleg”. He offered to earn money on one of the sites and transfer money to a bank card in the amount of initially 15 thousand 800 hryvnias, and later another 46 thousand. The trusting woman did all this, and she was blocked without returning the money back.
A 29-year-old man in Sumy also got into the same trouble. In the messenger he received an offer of additional earnings from a stranger. It was necessary to transfer funds to the provided bank card numbers with the subsequent return of them already with interest. The man transferred money in the amount of 158 thousand hryvnias to the bank card number provided to him, but of course he did not receive the money back.
In addition, a young resident of Okhtyrka in the telegram channel, after sms communication with an unknown person, in order to earn money, “had to put “likes” to various hotels that were displayed on the Google card. Apparently, earnings were accrued somewhere there, but I wanted more. After that, an unknown “employer” in a correspondence offered the woman to replenish her personal account for more earnings, to which she agreed and began to transfer money to the bank cards indicated to her. In total, the woman transferred 98 thousand 700 hryvnias to an unknown person. As a result, she was left without money.
For all claims of crimes, the police opened criminal proceedings under Art. 190 “Fraud” of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Law enforcement officers once again appeal to citizens with a request before transferring their money to an unknown person - you should at least establish the identity. And remember - free cheese is only in mousetraps.
National Police of Ukraine
