A pensioner from Ugra gave fraudsters more than 4 million rubles to trade on Binance

The attackers defrauded a Ugra resident of 4.1 million rubles by carrying out various operations on his behalf, includingon the acquisition of cryptocurrency on the Binance exchange. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug.

The victim was contacted by one of the scammers, who introduced himself as a broker and offered to start trading, allegedly on the stock exchange.

On the advice of «broker» victimdownloaded a program for remote access to a PC, with the help of which the fraudster traded cryptocurrency through Binance. The Ugra resident also provided all his data, including photographs of bank cards and information to log into his personal account. In addition, he informed the «broker» one-time passwords that came to his mobile phone.

«The applicant confirmed all SMS messages that came to his subscriber number, where over 1 million rubles were debited from his bank card», —says on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Two weeks later, a resident of Ugra asked to withdraw funds from the exchange, but the scammer said that the amount was very large and only a “senior broker” could help do this.

Another malefactor who introduced himself as a seniorbroker, asked the victim to transfer additional funds and pay a tax charge, as a result of which the victim sent more than 3 million rubles to the fraudsters.

Subsequently «senior broker» demanded two additional payments, after which the victim contacted the police.

«Thus, the victim reportedscammers received more than 40 codes that came to his mobile phone, as a result of which he lost funds in the amount of 4 million 150 thousand rubles, which had been accumulated over several years», —reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

At the moment, law enforcement authorities have opened a criminal case under the article on fraud and are engaged in the identification of suspects.

Binance noted that the exchange may temporarilyfreeze funds if a user contacts support in the event of unauthorized access to his account. If this is not done, the responsibility lies solely with the user.

«Binance's terms of use prohibithave access to the account by anyone other than the registered user. In the event that someone has gained access to your funds, you should immediately contact technical support, who can take a number of measures (for example, temporarily freeze withdrawals) and prevent potential theft of funds. The security of funds directly depends on how quickly the user notifies technical support about the incident», —Gleb Kostarev, official representative of Binance in the Russian Federation, told ForkLog.

Earlier, a resident of Penza transferred 625 thousand rubles to the attackers who promised him earnings through cryptocurrencies.