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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brianwill" data-source="post: 700" data-attributes="member: 15">Minsk investigators have completed the investigation of the case against another courier of telephone scammers.Not so long ago, residents of the capital were "excited" by calls from supposedly relatives in trouble, asking for help. Unknown people called, as a rule, elderly citizens, said that their loved one could become a person involved in a criminal case and offered to compensate for the damage to the victims. Being in a stressful situation, Minsk residents transferred quite large sums without even bothering to call their relative and clarify the circumstances.Investigators, in cooperation with police officers, carried out a large-scale preventive work to curb the criminal activities of so-called telephone scammers. Currently, the number of such crimes is practically reduced to zero.It is worth noting that there were also those who, wanting to earn quick and easy money, helped scammers to enrich themselves on the credulity of citizens and agreed to take "pay-offs"from pensioners for a fee.Since the beginning of 2022, more than 180 couriers belonging to such criminal groups have been detained. However, instead of earning money, employees received criminal liability.The Investigation Department of the Minsk City Police Department has completed the investigation of a criminal case against another member of an organized group that earns money on the credulity of Minsk residents.In April 2022, a 30-year-old man was looking for a job online. He was interested in the job of a courier, because for a high salary it was only necessary to collect cash and transfer it to their "colleagues" or top up bank accounts. The defendant agreed.Having received from employers the coordinates of the first victim, the defendant went to the address where he was met by a 72-year-old resident of the capital. The excited woman gave him 2 thousand US dollars, because before the courier arrived, the victim's daughter allegedly called and said that she was the culprit of the accident and urgently needed money for the victim's treatment.The defendant exchanged the money taken from the pensioner in an exchange office for Belarusian rubles and used the terminal to transfer it to an account whose details were provided by the "employer". The person involved left 200 US dollars as a reward for the completed order.The man's career did not last long – only two days, after which he was detained by police officers. During this time, the accused took more than 100 thousand rubles from 8 pensioners living in Minsk and the Minsk region.It is worth noting that when meeting with the victims, the man, on the instructions of the curator, presented himself with fictitious data, was wearing a mask to hide his appearance, and also changed clothes. He threw away all personal belongings of the elderly, leaving only cash.When studying the characteristic material, it was established that the man had previously been convicted of committing fraud on a large scale and did not officially work.The actions of the courier of telephone fraudsters are qualified under Part 4 of Article 209 (fraud committed by an organized group on a particularly large scale). Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. A preventive measure in the form of remand in custody was applied to him.</blockquote>

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