A stranger called the 37 year old man and told him they were trying to take out a loan in his name. He advised to transfer money to a secure account so as not to end up without savings. “Believing in the deception, the head of the legal department of one of the factories in the Samara region transferred more 1.3 million rubles to the fraudster, ”the police said.
Earlier on the air on Sputnik radio, the Russians learned basic techniques from the arsenal of scammers/