In Moscow, a top executive of Standart-Credit Bank handed over 700,000 rubles, fearing a cryptocurrency loan

The chairwoman of the board of Standart-Credit Bank in Moscow fell victim to scammers who claimed that there were allegedly suspicious transactions on her card involving cryptocurrency. reports REN TV.

The victim was convinced that unknown individuals had withdrawn 80,000 rubles from her card and had taken out a loan to buy cryptocurrency.

The call was then transferred to the bank’s security service, which demanded that she dictate the codes from the SMS to a robotic system to transfer the remaining funds to a secure account.

Having gained access to the victim’s card, the scammers stole nearly 700,000 rubles from it.

An investigation is under way.

Earlier, ForkLog reported that a Russian woman had become the victim of a scammer, ‘selling Bitcoin’ through Telegram.

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