Man lost 140 thousand hryvnias due to fake bank employees

A 60-year-old resident of Ivano-Frankivsk region lost 140 thousand hryvnias due to pseudo-bank employees.

This was reported to the regional police department.

The resident of the Carpathian region filed a complaint with law enforcement and reported that he suffered from phone scams scammers.

“The man received a call the day before from an unknown person who introduced himself as a bank security officer. The stranger said that criminals were trying to withdraw money from his cards. To avoid this, he should provide bank card details, which the applicant did”, – found out by law enforcement officers.

As it turned out later, the fraudster had debited more than 140 thousand hryvnias from the account of the Carpathian resident.

The police initiated criminal proceedings under Article 190 (Fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.