A woman from Ternopil bought a car for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and lost 258,000 UAH

A resident of the regional center transferred almost 258 thousand hryvnias to an Internet fraudster. The woman wanted to help her friend by purchasing a car for the front, but instead became a victim of a scam.

The applicant tried to help her friend, who protects the territorial integrity of the state. On the Internet, she found an ad for the sale of a car for the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ternopil woman called the author of the publication and agreed on favorable terms of purchase. The man promised to quickly drive the car across the border. The woman agreed and transferred the agreed amount as a down payment for the car.

A few days later, the scammer called her and asked for more money, supposedly for insurance. As a result, the Ternopil resident made several transactions to solve various difficulties that the scammer had told her about. In total, the woman transferred 257,756 hryvnias. When the fraudster called again and asked for money, the Ternopil woman realized that it was a scam. She turned to law enforcement for help.

The investigators of the Ternopil Regional Department of Internal Affairs entered information about the incident into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations in accordance with Part 3 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fraud).

Police officers are taking measures to identify and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Police officers remind To residents of the region: do not send money to unknown persons. Make sure that the car really exists, and the intermediary is not another scammer, reports the communications department of the Ternopil region police.