A 22-year-old man from Kremenets district lost 10,000 hryvnias due to telephone fraudsters

Almost 10,000 hryvnias disappeared from the card account of a 22-year-old resident of the Kremenets district. The young man gave the fraudster access to his card account.

According to the applicant, he was called by an unknown person who introduced himself as an employee of the banking institution. The man reported on the possibility of improving mobile banking. To do this, he asked to confirm, select the settings, by pressing the number one when the bank's automated system called.

The young man did everything the scammer told him to do. However, within a few minutes, the citizen received a notification about the successfully completed transaction.

The investigators of the territorial police department entered the information about the incident into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations in accordance with Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.