Phone scammers forced a woman from Nizhny Novgorod to hand over 10 million rubles.

      September 23, 2025 10:55 Incidents

      In Nizhny Novgorod, an employee of a telecommunications company lost a large sum after communicating with telephone scammers. The details were reported by the press service of the regional branch of the Interior Ministry.

      The 39-year-old woman went to Police Department No. 5 to file a fraud report. Law enforcement officers established that over the course of two days unknown callers contacted her via a new messaging app, claiming to be law enforcement officers.

      Under the pretext of canceling a suspicious bank transaction and the need to declare funds, the callers persuaded the woman to withdraw 4 million rubles from her account. She put the money in a black bag and handed it to a stranger near her home on Nizhne-Pecherskaya Street.

      The next day the victim received another call and, following the fraudsters’ instructions, transferred her remaining savings — another 6 million rubles — via ATMs in a shopping center to accounts specified by the perpetrators.

      In total, the amount of damage amounted to 10 million rubles. A criminal case has been opened under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Fraud”).

      Police are currently establishing all the circumstances of the incident.

      Earlier it was reported that a Nizhny Novgorod resident removed a self-imposed credit ban in order to take out a loan for the scammers.

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