Scammers accessed Krasnoyarsk woman's data in phone fraud

A Krasnoyarsk woman almost fell for scammers« tricks. She could have lost a large sum if she had kept it on her bank cards. The woman told NGS24.RU about this.

According to the city resident, she first received a call from the tax office, allegedly «after a desk audit, they found some discrepancies and she needed to come in.»

A desk tax audit is an automated check of declarations, tax calculations, and deduction applications conducted by the tax inspection.

Then the woman said she would make an appointment, but the scammer wasn«t satisfied with that answer. Allegedly because on the government services portal, appointments can only be made within two weeks, but she needed to visit the tax inspection within five days, otherwise «she would have to pay a fine».

«She stated my passport details, my email. She made an appointment for me and asked me to confirm it, a message came and I had to say the number that arrived out loud», the Krasnoyarsk woman says.

Then the city resident asked something (as the woman clarified, she doesn»t remember the question) to her interlocutor, and she replied that she needed to consult. During the “consultation” she didn«t turn off the microphone, so the Krasnoyarsk woman heard the conversation of two “colleagues”.

«There a guy started talking, something needs to be done, but the main thing is that I shouldn»t call some number», adds the Krasnoyarsk woman.

Already at this time, the woman started receiving mass messages, allegedly her data was being uploaded somewhere, in the messages there was also a number, which, in panic, the city resident called.

«The girl spoke calmly, that nothing could be done anymore, that only a request to the Bank of Russia could be sent, but she kept insisting that I be alone», the woman continues.

And despite the fact that she decided not to continue the conversation and hung up, the previously mentioned girl called her back twice. After what happened, the Krasnoyarsk woman went to the police, where she was told that about 12 deceived people come to the station per day.

Also, the city resident shared her emotions during the fraud:

«Panic takes over strongly — it«s unclear what to do, where to run. Worse even than losing money, I have no money on my cards at all. Here the issue is more about data and the possibility of taking some loans, microloans … Then messages started coming: “You applied for a loan, confirm the application”. It becomes extremely uncomfortable. At “Sberbank”, when I blocked the card, they said: “Wait, in the near future you will receive another such fraudulent call”», the woman says.

Earlier NGS24.RU reported that a 73-year-old Krasnoyarsk man withdrew three million two hundred thousand rubles (approximately $33,700 at current rates) from his account and handed them over to scammers.

Moreover, the regional prosecutor«s office weekly publishes frightening statistics — more and more people are becoming victims of scammers, and the stolen amounts already total up to several billion.