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Netizens repaid a loan from a victim of telephone scammers

Netizens helped the programmer to close a loan that fraudsters issued for him. Writes about this TJournal.

The victim published a post on Twitter with a story about how he was deceived by the scammers. The attackers impersonated employees of Alfa-Bank and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and issued a loan for him for 1.8 million rubles.

In the post, the programmer asked for help to close part of the debt. The required amount was collected in six hours, he promised to spend the remaining money on charity.

According to him, he received a call from "Alfa-Bank" and was told that a loan was issued for the man. However, he himself did not take out a loan. He was warned about scammers and asked to pronounce the code from the SMS to the robot to "delete the account".

The next day they called him again and said that in order to close the loan, he needed to return the money to the bank. However, the necessary branch was closed, then he was offered to transfer money to an account in another bank.

According to the programmer, he understood that he was doing something wrong, but a girl allegedly from Alfa-Bank constantly talked to him and assured him that everything was fine.

As a result, the man was left with a loan of 1.8 million rubles. - the money, like the bank employees, disappeared. The police told him that the chance to get the money back and find the criminals is almost zero.

Earlier I talked about how The Matrix inspired hackers to steal.

Netizens repaid a loan from a victim of telephone scammers