In Dzerzhinsk, an employee of a company shipped goods worth 5.9 million rubles to a shell company: the director of the LLC reported fraud involving a copycat website.

      The police received a statement from the head of one of the commercial organizations in the city of Dzerzhinsk. The reason was a significant financial loss of nearly 6,000,000 rubles, which arose due to the actions of fraudsters who created an exact copy of the website of a legally existing entity. Employees of the local firm, according to the concluded supply contract, shipped more than 900 units of specialized products worth over 5.9 million rubles to an LLC registered in another city via a transport company. The basis for this was the requests and documents received from the counterparty through electronic services on the Internet. After the goods were sent, the funds to the supplier's settlement account, in accordance with contractual obligations, never arrived. All attempts to contact the purchasing firm using the provided details were unsuccessful — representatives of the organization stopped responding. During an internal investigation, employees of the affected firm contacted the real director of the very legal entity to which the goods "went." The head of the enterprise stated that his company had not entered into any contracts or made orders for the supply of goods worth nearly 6 million rubles. According to the director, unknown individuals are illegally using the details of his organization. After multiple claims directed at him from other organizations, the entrepreneur contacted the police in another region and learned that the fraudsters had created a phishing copy of the official web resource of his limited liability company on the Internet, continuing to make purchases in various organizations across Russia in its name. A criminal case has been initiated and is being investigated by the police department No. 1 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Dzerzhinsk under the signs of a crime provided for by part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud), the sanctions of which provide for punishment of up to 10 years in prison. Currently, the police are conducting a comprehensive set of operational-search measures and investigative actions aimed at solving the crime. The police of the Nizhny Novgorod region, in order to prevent fraudulent activities in the field of entrepreneurial activity, recommend that legal entities strengthen digital security measures and carefully check counterparties, including against the register of unscrupulous suppliers, before concluding civil law contracts. For the "purity" of transactions concluded between organizations, it is recommended to require new counterparties to provide an up-to-date extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities on the day of the transaction, verify phone numbers and email addresses of the firm with official sources (Federal Tax Service, Unified Information System), and check the taxpayer identification number of the recipient of funds - it will always differ among different companies with the same name. For large transaction amounts, make a confirmation call to the official phone number of the organization found independently (not from documents sent by the counterparty). If illegal actions have been committed against you or your loved ones, immediately contact the duty unit of the nearest police department or call the communication channel 02 (102 - from a mobile phone).

      Press Service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod Region Tel.: 268-54-05 According to the information of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Dzerzhinsk

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