Cybercriminals stole 64 thousand hryvnias from a pensioner: a new fraud scheme

In Kyiv, law enforcement uncovered a fraudster who posed as an employee of Oschadbank over the phone. A 33-year-old resident of Dnipropetrovsk region has been charged with fraud - he withdrew all the money from the victim's card.

According to the prosecutor's office, he deceived the 75-year-old Kyiv resident into gaining access to his bank account and stole 64 thousand hryvnias. This was done by transferring the money into cryptocurrency.

Law enforcement qualified the actions of the detained as fraud under Articles 361 and 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, as complicity in fraud and unauthorized dissemination of restricted access information.

The information was provided by the press service of the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office.

In a series of frauds, this was yet another case - a crafty trickster made the pensioner hand over all his savings to him. Only thanks to the promptness of law enforcement was the criminal apprehended and the money returned to the victim. It is important to be cautious and not to trust personal data to unknown calls or messages.