A student from Kstovo involved a classmate in bank card fraud.

      29 November 2025, 13:50 — Incidents

      In the Nizhny Novgorod Region an 18-year-old student became involved in a fraud scheme related to the issuance of bank cards. His classmate offered him a way to "make some extra money" by issuing cards in his name but linking them to other people's phone numbers, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Nizhny Novgorod Region reported.

      Believing it was easy money, the young man agreed and issued several cards, for which he received a monetary reward. However, some time later unknown individuals contacted him and asked him to come to the bank to unblock accounts and withdraw funds.

      Sensing something was wrong, the student told his mother, blocked all the cards and turned to the police.

      It emerged that his classmate acted as an intermediary in the fraud scheme — handing over the issued bank cards to third parties for a fee. He is currently detained.

      A criminal case has been opened under Part 5 of Article 187 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation — "Illegal turnover of means of payment." The maximum penalty under this article is up to six years' imprisonment.

      The Nizhny Novgorod Region police remind: handing over a bank card or access to online banking to third parties for monetary gain may entail criminal liability.

      Earlier it was reported that a Nizhny Novgorod resident helped an online casino cash out more than 113 million rubles by buying bank cards and SIM cards on the darknet that were registered to other people.

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