In Kyiv, a man defrauded a pensioner under the scheme “Your relative is in trouble”: what is known

A former prisoner extorted $4,000 from a 73-year-old woman.

IN Kyiv a man defrauded a pensioner under the “Your relative is in trouble” scheme.

This was reported by the Kyiv police.

“A 73-year-old local resident contacted the Kyiv police and reported that she had been scammed. The pensioner received a phone call from an unknown person who identified himself as a doctor and said that her daughter had been in a road accident and is currently in the hospital, and she allegedly urgently needs funds for an operation. Because for some time, the victim was visited by an intruder, who recommended himself as a doctor's proxy, and she gave the stranger four thousand dollars,” it is said in messages

As the investigator of the Shevchenkiv police department, Kateryna Cherkes, said, criminal investigation officers, together with operatives of the capital, during operational measures, established and…