Russia (bbabo.net), - Domestic scammers immediately began to actively adapt to the modern trend. They call citizens and claim that there are a lot of scammers around, so they are now doing a good deed - returning compensation to citizens for deceit.

On Monday, February 7, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that another group of such "benefactors" was caught in Kazan. These are young people who are suspected of fraud under the pretext of paying compensation for previously incurred damage from the purchase of dietary supplements.

The detainees called citizens, most of whom are pensioners. And they reported that they purchased allegedly turned out to be unsuitable, in connection with which they, as victims, are entitled to compensation. But in order to receive a payment, you must pay for paperwork, commission, insurance or tax.

- Operatives of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Tatarstan managed to get on the trail of swindlers in December last year. The police found a private house, from where the accomplices called residents of various regions of the Russian Federation. As a result, the alleged organizer of the criminal scheme and three accomplices were detained. One of the accomplices has been put on the federal wanted list, - said the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Volk.

The callers have already told the police that the organizers provided them with telephones and SIM cards, as well as lists of citizens for "calling". The conscience of the "ringers" - after all, they deceived mostly old people - was silent. Indeed, for each "successful" call, the hired performer received a quarter of the amount by which the person was deceived. Police say that so far the total amount of damage is more than 11 million rubles.

The scammers called citizens and reported that the dietary supplements they bought allegedly turned out to be unsuitable, and they were entitled to compensation

The deception about the return of compensation for the sold dietary supplements is not a local "know-how". It has already been used by scammers in other regions of the country more than once. The police calculated that last year only in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, 495 criminal cases were opened for crimes "related to the commission of fraudulent actions against senior citizens."

Among those who were deceived, there are many residents of besieged Leningrad and veterans of the Great Patriotic War, the department emphasizes. Moreover, more than half of these crimes were solved by the police. For fraud only in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, 240 people were detained.

The St. Petersburg police even made up the main types of deception of older citizens. The first type is a call from a supposedly close relative who is in trouble and who urgently needs money to save himself.

In second place are sellers of dietary supplements. Or those who offer compensation for once purchased dietary supplements.

Third on the police list are scammers who pose as social or community workers. They call or come with an offer to install windows, gas analyzers, sell water filters, fire extinguishers, panic buttons and other things.

Next come the deceivers offering cheap repairs.

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