A Kirov woman suffered from scammers while trying to get a job

In November, a 68-year-old Kirov resident fell into the clutches of scammers after filling out an interview form to get a job at a large Russian energy company. This was reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kirov region.

A couple of days later, the pensioner received a phone call on WhatsApp with an interesting option, which the woman could not refuse. The man, introducing himself as a manager at a brokerage company, invited the Kirov woman to make transactions using a special computer application. To get a 20 percent profit, the woman had to deposit money into private accounts.

The amount of the pensioner’s transfers to the scammers amounted to 42 thousand rubles. The manager offered to withdraw the money back with the promised interest. To do this, he asked for another 1000…