Metropolitan law enforcement officers discovered individuals who used a cunning approach to deceive internally displaced citizens by offering them financial assistance. This was reported by the press service of the Kyiv police.
The man and woman posted advertisements in telegram channels that addressed internally displaced persons and offered them the opportunity to receive financial assistance from foreign partners. To achieve this goal, the attackers redirected people to a fake phishing site, where the victims entered their bank details, and the scammers withdrew all the money from their accounts. This fraud led to the deception of more than fifty citizens, and those involved in this scheme face 3 to 5 years in prison.
This crime was reported to the Kyiv police by representatives of one of the state banks. They reported that unknown persons, posing as employees of a financial institution, defraud clients and withdraw money from their accounts. Law enforcement officers, after conducting an investigation, discovered two swindlers.
“The suspects turned out to be residents of Zaporozhye - a 28-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman. They created a fake phishing site, similar to one of the well-known state banks, and with its help they tried to deceive internally displaced people through telegram channels, offering financial assistance from foreign partners. “By clicking on the link and providing the details of their bank cards, citizens provided the scammers with access to their accounts, and they withdrew the money. It is now known that about 54 people fell under this scheme,” said Evgeniy Chernyakhovsky, head of the investigation department for ordinary crimes of the Kyiv police investigation department.
In total, the suspects took more than 400 thousand hryvnia from citizens’ accounts. During searches of their homes, investigators seized notebooks with notes, documents confirming their criminal activities, computers, mobile phones and SIM cards. They are working to identify other participants in this criminal scheme, as well as to find the victims.
Law enforcement officers informed the suspects about their participation in a criminal offense in accordance with Part 3 of Art. 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - fraud committed under conditions of martial law or a state of emergency, which caused significant damage to the victim. The sanction of this article provides for a punishment of 3 to 5 years of imprisonment. The pre-trial investigation continues.
