A resident of Nizhny Novgorod transferred more than 7.5 million rubles to scammers.

      A resident of the Pochinkovsky district gave more than 7.5 million rubles to scammers. He was intimidated by a tax debt and the initiation of a criminal case. This was reported by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod region. A 36-year-old Nizhny Novgorod resident received a video call from scammers posing as Federal Tax Service employees. They informed him that he had a tax debt. To resolve everything, he needed to pay it off urgently. For about a week, the scammers communicated with the Nizhny Novgorod resident via telebridge. They pretended to be employees of the FSB, the consumer rights protection service, and the accessibility of financial services of the Bank of Russia. The Nizhny Novgorod resident was informed about suspicious activity on his accounts and the alleged initiation of a criminal case against him. The frightened man took out a loan and transferred the received money to the dictated account. In total, he gave the fraudsters more than 7.5 million rubles. After that, the Nizhny Novgorod resident contacted the police. "A criminal case has been initiated on the grounds of a crime under part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on a particularly large scale). Investigative actions are underway," the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod region reported. Earlier, the website pravda-nn.ru reported that more than 5 million rubles were stolen from a resident of the Pavlovsky district. Evgenia Gruzdova Photo: Alexander Volozhanin

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