Scammers convinced a pensioner to buy gold worth 30 million rubles…
Scammers convinced a pensioner to buy gold worth 30 million rubles at a bank and hand it over to them. A 59-year-old man from Moscow turned himself in to the police.
Consensus
- The victim is a pensioner from Moscow.
- Fraudsters convinced the man to buy gold worth approximately 30 million rubles.
- The man handed over the gold to a female courier.
- A 21-year-old woman from Moscow was arrested in connection with the case.
- An investigation into the fraud is underway, and an official criminal case has been opened.
Points of divergence
- The gold purchase amounted to over 30.6 million rubles, and the total weight was 2.5 kilograms. — vm
- The victim is a pensioner from St. Petersburg, not Moscow, and lost more than 95 million rubles in total across multiple transactions involving both gold and cash. — fontanka
- Another case involving a different man from Moscow was reported, where he lost 13.3 million rubles in gold to the same scheme. — vm
Coverage (5 sources)
- Scammers convinced pensioner to buy gold worth 30 million rubles in a bank and hand it over to them, reported by TASS from the Ministry of Internal Affairs — ТАСС (Telegram)
- Scammers convinced a pensioner to buy gold worth 30 million rubles in a bank and hand it over to them. — РИА Новости (Telegram)
- Scammers received gold bars worth 30 million rubles from a Moscow pensioner — Вечерняя Москва
- Scammers steal 95 million rubles from pensioner in St. Petersburg — РИА Новости (Telegram)
- St. Petersburg pensioner handed over nearly $10 million in gold and cash to scammers — Фонтанка