How to cheat on the Internet. How to protect yourself from financial losses. Memo. What to do if you cheated for money Ways to cheat people

what such a scam on the internet, its types, money scam, Internet fraud and deceiving users, I propose to find out in this article.

I must say right away that the days of Ostap Bender have not passed and will never pass, and there will always be people who will try to make money by fraud. Now a scam on the Internet is flourishing on the same scale as in our real life.

But in order to protect yourself from this and not get into a scam on the network and not lose your money, I suggest reading this article and finding out what to do and what not to do, if you are offered something tempting and monetary.

And what to do in order not to get caught in a scam for money and not become a victim of scammers, as well as what needs to be done before giving (transfer) money to an attacker.

Scams on the Internet

Cheating 1

Today, scams on the Internet, multiply like mushrooms after rain. And the following types of fraud are considered the most basic:

1. Translation and typing for money.
2. Working with e-mail.
3. Photo processing (digital).
4. Sort images and cut labels.

Cheating 2

Self-help cash desks.

These activities are complete divorce and scam. They are thrown in 99% of cases, so do not even try to start trying to make money in these ways, I think that everything will be fine for you. Everyone who suffered thought so too.

Online scams are, for example, currency exchange sites. Attackers may argue that by exchanging one currency for another several times, you can earn a decent amount. But turn on your brains and get who and most importantly what you pay the promised profit for.

And also think about if you became the owner of the exchanger, would you work at a loss? I think and I'm sure not!

Cheating 3

Financial pyramids that disguise their activities under good goals. For example, some people call to invite a certain number of friends, and after that pay a certain amount of money, after which you will receive your percentage from these friends, which they, in turn, will also pay.

These are standard scams on the Internet. And you will not receive any money. Remember this.

Cheating 4

Dating sites that first invite gullible users to see pictures of beautiful girls (which most men will love). But the owners of these dating sites offer to pay for access to more intimate photos of these girls, which they allegedly posted in their profiles. As a rule, payment is made using mobile phone.

Believe me, you will not get any access to intimate photos. This is a pure scam on the Internet and a scam for money.

Cheating 5

Fundraising for charitable purposes. Many users fall for this trick and money scam, who are not indifferent to the fate of many people who need financial help.

But often such people are disguised as scammers on the Internet who create special pageswith pictures of children who need money for medical treatment abroad.

In order not to fall into this scam, remember that charities do not use spam methods to tell about their organization. And if you want to help someone, you can find out about this or that charitable organization in the administration of your city.

Cheating 6

Magic wallets are the most common cheating method that has been around for several years. Its essence is that you need to send a certain amount of money (as a rule, a small one, so that it would not be a pity to send it). Again you need to turn on your brains and ask yourself the question: "Why can they send me 1,2,3 ... times more money than I sent myself?"

I think after that, you will give up the obsessive desire to "increase" your money.

Cheating 7

SMS scam, the most common type of divorce for money. On the internet you can often see such supposedly enthusiastic reviews: “the guys recently found out that if you send such and such an amount of money (the amount is indicated) to such and such a phone (the phone number is indicated), then 2 times more is returned to the account.

Ask yourself again about who and for what will top up your mobile phone balance in an amount exceeding the one you send?

Again, the answer is obvious, this is another free internet scam, which, by the way, many users get into. Often, attackers urge to send a small amount, often 10 rubles, which many do. And in return they get 2 rubles to the account. And then most of these “lucky ones” send even more, and, as you might have guessed, they did not wait for the balance to be refilled.

Cheating 8

Account hacks. This usually happens as follows. User on mailbox a letter comes with a message that their account has been hacked and in order to restore access, you need to follow the link (which is indicated in the same letter) and get on the page (which is disguised as the design of the service in which you are invited to restore access) and send some the amount of money to the specified mobile phone number.

This is also a scam for money and a scam on the Internet of pure water.

Remember that no services, especially social networks, require you to pay money to restore access. Therefore, having received such a letter, immediately try to go to the service to which you are offered to restore access.

And if suddenly there is some problem with the entrance to Personal Area, write about it to Technical Support.

Cheating 9

Hacking wallets in webmoney and Yandex Money is also a very common scam on the Internet. The action in this type of fraud on the Internet is the same as I described in the previous method of deception. A letter comes to the mail that the account of such a wallet has been hacked (they can indicate the wallet number) and to restore access they offer to follow the link in the same letter and to new page (which is similar to the site payment system) in a special form, enter the Login and Password from your wallet.

Most of the users fall for this scam for money, since everything happens automatically and unknowingly. Therefore, now you know about it and I think that you will not fall for such a trick. Remember, always, immediately try to enter your wallet, and if it does not work, then write to the support service of the service, access to which I suggest you restore.

Cheating 10

Ransomware viruses. Almost all Internet users know about it. But for those who do not know how a money scam happens in this type of fraud, I explain. You do not need to believe the information written on the banner that blocked your computer, with the assurance that to unlock you need to send an SMS message (or top up the balance of this mobile phone number) to the specified mobile phone number and enter the received code into the form that is on banner, then press the UNLOCK button. I assure you nothing will be unlocked and the banner will remain, and the amount you paid will go to the fraudster's wallet.

All that needs to be done, if such a thing happened, is to call a computer repair specialist who, for 1000 rubles, perhaps a little more, will unlock your computer.

This seems to be all the main types of scam and fraud on the Internet, which I wanted to tell you about. And now I offer information that will help you not to fall into the hands of scammers and not become that sucker who will replenish the army of all deceived in the Internet space and keep your money safe and sound.

How to check a scam or not

You need to understand that NO ONE and NEVER will give you anything for free. And if you decide to find ways to get rich, where you need to work little and invest almost nothing, then I recommend a book that contains, among other things, proven ways to make money on the Internet and in real life, and which many users have already bought. And also read the article, at least not so long ago one of my friends told me about this option of earning with the help of computer power.

As for fraud on the Internet, everything happens there with the help of sites that are created by scammers to deceive gullible users. Therefore, the easiest way is to check the reviews of a site that offers certain services that you read about in the previous paragraphs is to check what other users are saying about it on other websites.

To do this, just type the address of a site into the Yandex search line, click the FIND button and see what they write about this site on other Internet resources.

But check reviews not only on the first page in the search results, but also on 2 and 3, since scammers can create several different sites (including pages on social networks), which will have grateful and positive reviews from supposedly satisfied customers ...

If this is a scam and a scam, then you will definitely find sites with unflattering reviews.

Believe me, this method alone can reduce the risk of getting caught money divorce.

In general, always check in this way scam sites that offer to do something, where you do not need to do anything and receive money just like that.

This is where I will finish this article and I want to say again so that you remember once and for all: this is a myth and it simply does not exist. And if you want to make money, then you need to be able to do something. Or know the ways that many people have been earning for a long time, including on the Internet.

If there is interest, then in the article, you will find out about it.

According to Hackers stole almost a billion rubles from Russians in 2017 Central Bank, in 2017 961 million rubles were stolen from the accounts of Russians. The average transaction amount for which the cardholder did not consent was 3,000 rubles. It seems to be not so much, but it is still unpleasant, given that often theft could be easily avoided.

It is often a matter of simple carelessness. Technological progress has given us smart devices that make life easier, but alas, not safer. Having hacked one of the gadgets connected to your home network, attackers can, if desired, obtain all your personal information. Personal data, logins, passwords - you yourself will not notice how information about your life on the Internet will float away to scammers.

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Tricks to be aware of

And yet, the Internet of Things is often not as dangerous as the most banal and familiar to many schemes for divorce for money. Everything seems to be elementary, these tricks are heard, but people still fall for them.

1. Offer a profitable job

If you come across an ad that promises good money for dusty work from home, do not rush to rejoice. Often times, stories like this turn out to be trivial scams.

You are asked to transfer a certain amount, for example, to pay for educational materials and to prove that you are serious about your intentions. They ask for money not so big, especially in comparison with the future salary. Why not, you think. That's all. You can write to the failed employer as much as you like, you will hardly wait for an answer. Nobody will return your money either.

What to do

Don't trust sweet promises. Look for reviews about working at the company - there are probably stories of cheated people who got a donut hole instead of money. Finally, think hard: why do you even need to pay for a job that you haven't taken on yet?

2. Letter from a "bank employee"

What to do

Do not provide anyone with your card details and do not follow questionable links. If a person posing as a bank employee asks for the card number, expiration date and CVV code, he is probably a fraud. Call the bank's direct line and find out if the representatives of the financial institution really sent you a letter.

3. Asking "friends" for help

Transfer the required amount, and then a surprise: it turns out that your real friend did not ask you for any money. His page was simply hacked and a decent harvest was gathered, playing on the feelings of gullible acquaintances.

What to do

Make sure this is really your friend. Call him, write an SMS, in general, contact in any way, except for a message on the social network. And just in case, change the password for your account, especially if you use the same everywhere. You never know, then suddenly you will have to make excuses to everyone who sent money to a swindler who introduced himself as your name.

4. Deceptive sellers

The scheme is extremely simple. You have found an ad for the sale of a thing that you really need. Only the seller asks for an advance payment: you never know, suddenly you cheat him, you will receive the goods, but you will not transfer the money.

In fact, they are deceiving you. Send the required amount to the seller, he writes, they say, he sent the parcel, wait. You wait, wait and wait again. As you might guess, the purchase will not come to you, because no one thought to send it.

What to do

Don't buy anything from questionable online stores. Before sending money, please try to find information about the seller. Perhaps someone has already fallen for him and shared his indignation on the Web. And, of course, insist on payment upon receipt of the parcel.

5. Doubtful sites

For example, the same online store. You buy something there, enter your card details, and then you receive a notification that an amount exceeding the purchase price has been debited from your account. And it's good if such a notification comes only once.

Before paying take a look at address bar... If the resource address starts with https, everything is fine, the connection is secure. With http, chances are good that your data will float away into the hands of criminals.

What to do

Carefully watch where and what data you enter. In cases where you still fall for the bait of scammers, immediately call the bank and block the card.

Vigilance is the best defense against fraudsters, but other qualities are needed to effectively manage your personal budget. On the website "Financial Culture" you will find good advice about how to make friends with money and manage it wisely.

You can learn more about the methods of cybercriminals at the lecture “How Your Teapot Will Rob You: Fundamentals of Financial Security in the Modern World”. Sign up yourself and tell your friends about the lecture: this information is never superfluous.

Hello, in this article I want to touch on the topic of fraud on the Internet, how to avoid them and not become a victim of fraudsters. There are more and more users on the Internet every day, and along with them there are more scammers and ways to collect money from the population. Human greed has no boundaries, this is what scammers play on the Internet. What are the ways to cheat on the Internet to get your money:

1. A way to cheat on the Internet SMS registration confirmation

You found on the Internet a site that you liked, it could be a dating site, or a social network for adults, or just a site containing some interesting information for you, in order to get to the information you need, you will be asked to register. At the end of registration, you will be asked to confirm the registration and send a message to a short number, if you buy it, you are guaranteed to lose a big sum from your phone.

2. A way to cheat on the Internet: a unique technique

buy for 500 rubles earnings from 1500 rubles a day. Who of us has not seen such a message, on the eye, it probably came across to everyone, not exactly with the same content, but with similar. It happens, pay, $ 500 and get $ 100,000, moreover, this technique will cost several times cheaper than the final earnings, after you pay and receive this technique, you will find out that what you just did can be sold to other people and to make money and the main thing is not to dig, you bought it yourself.

3. A way to cheat on the Internet you are a wealthy heiress or heir

Such a letter can come to your e-mail, of course, everything is official, you will be asked to respond to the letter if it is you. You will receive a new letter, you will start a correspondence, after a few letters you will be informed that the inheritance is very large and for its speed, you need to send a certain amount of registration, then to issue an invitation, then to apply for a visa, then something else, if buy, you will be pulled out a tidy sum.

4. Cheating in online casinos

You will be given a presentation on how you can easily make money in a roulette casino. Simple, not complicated bets on red and black. You will not be asked for money for this information, everything is on a voluntary basis, you will simply be recommended some casino, moreover, it will be a legal casino, to which you will follow the partner link of the person who nicely shared this information with you. The fact is that any casino will take 5 minutes to recognize that you have started an unfair game with them. The casino will take action. You will be imperceptibly, for you they will be transferred to another table, where they will get all the money that you have credited to the casino account, it seems to me honestly, and the person by whose link you entered the casino will earn money on the fact that he brought you.

5. Scheme of cheating on the Internet lottery winnings

When you navigate through the sites, you see a message on the left or right side of the screen: You won the lottery, your IP address was chosen by the computer and you became the owner of something, you will be asked to fill out a form, write a comment on the topic of how you feel, leave a phone number, to which you will receive a message with approximately the following content: To confirm your identity, answer sms and if you respond and answer, then a whole correspondence will begin with you until you run out of money on your balance and if the mobile operator does not count money from your balance on time, you still owe the cellular operator.

6. Cheating on the Internet

Moving around the Internet, you go to the store from good design, with a cheap, and most importantly quality product. You see a really worthwhile thing at a bargain price marked with a special offer, which is valid for just a few more hours, you rush to pay for it, you are successful, you see, a message that within 10-15 days your purchased goods will be sent to you. mail at the indicated place of residence. A week passes, another, a third, but, alas, there is no product and will not be. You go to the address of the online store, either the trace is gone, or you are not answered, in the support service. Therefore, you should know that every payment system on the Internet has email addresses partner stores, use this database in order to avoid unpleasant, life moments.

7. A way to cheat on the Internet social networks

Many, probably, of you saw on the status of some nice woman in the status of a message that urgently needed money for the treatment of a small child who is terminally ill. Money is urgently needed, there is no time to delay, there is no longer, the account number is attached, you cannot help with money, put a class or like, like this, playing on people's pity, scammers fish out money. Therefore, if all this is true and you decided to help the poor child. Therefore, the message must contain official addresses, phone numbers of various guardianship and guardianship authorities, public funds that can confirm this information, not yesterday they found out that their child was sick, but requesting contact information from the official bodies is a matter of several hours.

8. Method of cheating with payment systems

A letter with the following content will be sent to your e-mail that there was a failure in the system and you will be asked to fill out a form where you need to indicate all your personal data and do not forget to indicate your card number with a pin code or ID address with a password you indicated, sent, say goodbye with money. No bank, no payment system like this, will send you a request, so contact your bank by phone or go to the official website to clarify the situation.

9. Method of cheating on the Internet at match-fixing

I met such a person personally, knocked on my friends at social network person, approximately, with the following sentence: Are you interested in fixing matches? I answered: - Aha, look for fools! He: - I'm serious, there is a result on the outcome of the football match. Me: - and how much do you ask? He: - 4000 rubles. Me: I portray a terrible laugh with emoticons, let me tell you for a try. He answered: gives 2 teams to England 0: 1 wins, then that. I go to the bookmaker's office, look and in fact, in four hours, the match should really take place. I believed him, but checked to my happiness. I couldn't sleep at midnight, I presented my brand new Porsche or Mercedes, if the information is correct, but I was lucky, the information turned out to be incorrect. Why lucky? I immediately understood what scheme this swindler was working on: he knocked on people's friends and offered to buy the result of a fixed match and called everyone a different result, and for someone, this result worked. And with complete confidence he paid the fraudster 4000 thousand for the next result. This is so banal, this man made money on greed.

10. Method of phishing on the Internet

Collecting data from English, on some Internet resource, may be asked for your username and password, from your social networks, which are necessary to activate registration or enter your ID from an electronic wallet. But always remember that your payment system ID is the only way to get to your money. Never enter your data on dubious sites - it is fraught with the risk of losing money or a page on a social network, etc.

11. A way to cheat on the Internet autosurfing

This is a semblance of a box or a mailer, only on these projects, you will be asked to buy bots that, for a month, will work for you on the site and earn many times more than your own cost, for which you will pay with your own money and in the end you will not get anything back. Another type of fraud in the axle boxes, you will surf sites all month in pursuit of collecting the required amount for withdrawal and you will not receive anything for the work done, so work on proven axle boxes, earn a pretty penny, but stable.

12. A way to cheat on the Internet blocking virus

On some resource, you click on a button with an interesting offer and catch a blocking virus, a window appears on the entire monitor screen, and you cannot do anything with it, it completely covers most of the screen. You will be offered to send an SMS to the number with an exchange for the code for disabling this window, for which money will be withheld from your phone number and you most likely will not receive the code. Therefore, you have no choice, you have to reinstall windows, so use antivirus software, they will warn you about an unreliable site.

13. Cheating on money exchangers

On the Internet, you may need electronic money, those payment systems on which you do not have electronic money, is due to the fact that payment systems, they usually do not cooperate with each other, and in order to get money, you will have to use exchangers, and this carries certain risks. The fact is that you first transfer money to the account of the payment system indicated to you in order to receive money from another system, so use trusted exchangers.

14. A way to cheat on the Internet on mobile devices

The number of mobile Internet users is growing every day. Therefore, exploring mobile Internet, you can go to an Internet resource where you like, any application that you want to download and, as usual, the application will request access to functions in the phone, almost all applications ask for such a request for work. Therefore, worry about this in advance with your cellular operator, turn off the automatic SMS function, I lost on this type of fraud, like 1000 rubles.

15. Magic wallets

The essence of this fraud boils down to the following. At one time, it was very common, you send some amount to the specified wallet number, and you get 2 times more back. Perhaps you will be lucky once, twice, but greed will overwhelm you, and you will send there a good amount, what the scammers are counting on and silence in response, and perhaps you will not get anything even with the first experimental payment. Money is not a joke.

16. Freelancers and web designers, work on the Internet without cheating

Deception of remote workers, has a large number of options, advice for freelancers to act through specialized exchanges, although they also meet, such as holding contests, for more high-paying job, so do not buy too much into various contests, perhaps this is a hoax.

17. List the insurance premium

You found a job for yourself on the Internet, this job is well paid and not labor-intensive, for example, collecting pens at home, we have a big competition for our work, if you agree, transfer 10 rubles in the form of an insurance premium for your consent to work, your 10 rubles will be returned to you as soon as the state is approved, which I can say about this type of fraud, it is as old as mammoth bones, this whole business has long been automated and ten times cheaper than human hands.

18. You have become the thousandth visitor to our site

Such an announcement can be found by going to the next web resource, you are invited to fill out a form, respond in order to receive a prize, do not forget to indicate the number cell phone and confirm by the copyright holder of the number, as soon as you do this from your number, the money will be read and you will find it immediately after sending the SMS.

19. Typing

You have found a job for yourself at home, you are invited to do typing, from the scanned pages that will be sent to you by mail, after completing the work, employers may disappear, be careful not to become a slave to scammers.

20. SMS fraud

In general, it is very common on the Internet, so never send SMS to short numbers from your phone, everything is done the other way around, a code is sent to you, and you enter it on the site.

21. Cheating on the Internet on ads for lost documents

Not long ago I encountered this type of fraud: I lost my documents. And, as many of us do, he turned to local television, where he posted an advertisement that I was asking to return my documents for a fee. The response was not long in coming, and unknown people called me, who told me that they had my documents and would be returned for a fee. For this I need them on mobile bank or send the amount to Webmoney and after that a girl will come up to me, who will solemnly hand me my documents. To which, of course, I replied to them that in no case would I give them money only in person. The fact is that the ads in the running line were duplicated on the local television website, which served as a bait for scammers.

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One maniac started a website with a counter and stated on it that he would kill his rabbit if he did not urgently collect 200 thousand dollars. The counter showed how much is still not enough to “ransom” the rabbit. Compassionate users collected the required amount.

Or here's another case of earning money on collective charity: a certain girl published a photograph of herself with a naked breast. Her breasts made such a pitiful impression that money was quickly sent from all over the world for plastic surgery. Then the young lady thanked all the sponsors by posting her new photo on the same site - with a magnificent silicone bust.

This story looks more like a fundraiser than a scam. However, we will never know who exactly was hiding behind the image of the poor girl and whether the rabbit that half of America saved actually existed ...

It also happens that scammers pretend to be single women on domestic dating sites. They post there a photo of a beauty (sometimes a popular singer or model, but for some reason no one notices it) and start long correspondence with a vending foreigner. The correspondence is becoming more and more intimate, a foreigner invites a lady to visit him - to another country. And then she, poor thing, admits that she does not have enough money for a ticket. The foreigner sends her money. Then the mysterious lady disappears. This type of fraud requires a certain artistry and mastery of the epistolary genre. According to statistics, the turnover in this area of \u200b\u200bfraud is $ 2 billion per year. Other scammers are flooding the web with Trojan viruses that hunt for bank account numbers and user passwords. You never know tricks invented by electronic combinators! There is such a primitive "wiring": e-mails are sent to many addresses that, they say, we have found a huge treasure here on the territory of the state of Limonia, but we do not have enough money for travel and various formalities. Who will help - we will share the treasure. People are pecking! Or, for example, the victim of the scam receives an email notification that he is the lucky one to have won the lottery. To get a win, you need to pay tax: transfer money to such and such an account. Oddly enough, these idiotic traps work. It is not clear only why many so willingly believe in the story of the treasure, and that they won a lottery in which they did not participate. These types of fraud, blackmail and begging are as old as the world. Only in our enlightened age are they carried out using the latest interfaces.

Unchanging cheese

Among lovers of network freebies, there is such a legend about a certain mysterious electronic wallet, the address of which periodically pops up here and there. The legend is simple: you transfer any amount to it, and in return they send you twice as much! Indeed, sometimes one comes across such a web page, lavishly decorated with large multi-colored type and a photograph of a fat man who, eyes bulging, is counting a wad of dollars. It says there something like the following: “Once I saw my boss transfer a hundred bucks to such and such an address, and immediately he got two hundred back! I, don't be a fool, wrote down the address and sent a dollar there - try it. It worked! Two dollars returned. Sent five - ten returned. Then I took courage and sent a hundred. Two hundred returned! The chief caught my scam and fired. But I don't give a damn about that, because now I have a lot of money. This is the address. Use it to your health. Just don't be greedy - don't transfer money there more than five times a day, don't overload the server. "
Why not a fairy tale about an irredeemable ruble ?! Or, rather, about free cheese ... The practical side of the matter is as follows. Someone got himself an electronic wallet and posted his address on the network with such an intricate commentary. And to clear his conscience he added: believe it or not. Everything seems to be clear - they collect money from dull-witted idlers.
But for every poison (that is, cheese) there is an antidote. At one forum, someone shared their experience. I supposedly transferred 50 cents to such an account - the dollar returned. Sent a dollar - two returned. But when I sent $ 50, nothing came back. I realized that I was thrown and decided to act smarter. Sent one dollar each from many different addresses. And for each came twice as much. After all, beginners are not thrown. On the contrary, small sums regularly double - in order to lure a new victim! In a word, the technologies of deception and ways to circumvent this deception are constantly being improved on the Web. And at the heart of all this fuss lies a strong and indestructible desire of a person to get money for nothing. The Internet, with its anonymity and inclusiveness, has become the ideal field for such adventures. A person who visits the site can judge about it only by the information that is posted there. Suppose there are mountains of gold drawn there and it is written: stop working! If you want to get rich - click here! And after all, they are pressing ... A lot of time and money is wasted on this.

Legislation Russian Federation it is clearly established that fraud (this is how it would be correct to call the situation if you were deceived for money) is a real crime, the responsibility for which is established by the Criminal Code. To be precise, fraud is the theft (theft) of someone else's property or obtaining the right to it by deception. The "skill" of modern attackers knows no bounds, it can be encountered both in real life and in the virtual world, only the most offensive is that in the latter case the money that is lured from a person turns out to be real.

Anyone can become a victim of a fraud, and it is difficult to guess when and where a fraud awaits you, but figuring out what to do if you have been cheated for money, without panic and hysterics, you can and should, then there is a chance to find a fraudster and bring him to justice for the law.

Common options for how they can cheat for money on the Internet

One of the most common ways to cheat people today is online fraud, and there are many ways:

• auctions (the victim allegedly wins the auction, dreaming of receiving an exclusive product, transfers money to the specified account, but does not receive the purchase directly);
• super-promotions (incredibly low prices are set for the goods, which is explained by the arrival of a new collection, but you need to make an advance payment, while your transfer is credited to the seller's account, the thing of interest was sold, and no one wants to return the money);
• committing fraudulent transactions with bank and credit cards (transfer of funds without the consent of the owner);
• deliberately false deliveries of the order (one product was promised to the buyer and paid for by him, and in return comes a cheap fake or not at all the thing that they do not want to exchange).

These are just a few examples of those with the help of which today many were deceived for money, but it is impossible to list all of them, since fraud in the virtual world is developing even more rapidly than in real life. There are many paid services and shops, but they are often joined by "dummy" firms.

Popular scams in real life

A huge number of scams are found in the real world. One of the most frequent is a call or SMS to the phone to mom / grandmother, with information that a relative, they say, is in trouble (knocked down a person, got into a drunken fight, etc.), an urgent need to transfer money to such and such phone number. It happens that the “representative” of the law enforcement agencies himself calls, informing about the threat of a criminal case, in order to “hush up” a certain amount of money.

They cheat for money, taking an advance payment for goods and services that you definitely will not wait for, they come up with various lotteries and pyramids. Congratulations on winning a car for being an active user of a gas station or a mobile operator, but in order to receive a prize, you need to transfer such and such an amount for expenses and registration (which, accordingly, is not present). The list of such scams can also go on for a long time.

What to do to someone who was deceived for money

If you were deceived by scammers and by cunning or outright deception took possession of money to which they have no right, in no case should this fact be hushed up. Even if the amount is small. It is imperative to contact the police, and the sooner this is done, the more chances to protect your interests and the smaller the number of subsequent victims. This path is suitable for all types of deception:

• for victims of real life scams;
• for online fraud.

There is another option, but directly related to cases of fraud on the Internet - this is an appeal to the Bureau of Special Technical Measures, which is a special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but is purposefully engaged in Internet fraud. Contact number can be found in help desk your city or by contacting your provider.

Attention! The owner of the portal should be informed about the case of fraud.

How to correctly draw up a statement for filing with the police

The first thing to do to someone who was cheated for money is to write a statement to the police. This document does not have a specific form, but it must be drawn up in accordance with general rules execution of such documents, indicating:

• the name of the authority to which the appeal is sent;
• personal information (full name, address, contact phone number);
• the main text in which you ask to conduct an investigation into the fact of the fraud and bring the fraudster to justice;
• that you are aware of the responsibility for false denunciation;
• date, signature.

In the main text, it is necessary to describe what happened, describing in detail how you met the fraudster, how the event happened and what is the amount of damage. If you were deceived for money using an Internet resource, then you should indicate on which portal you communicated and everything that is known about the fraudster (for example, his network name on the portal, auction ID, etc.).

The application should be accompanied by all materials that are somehow related to this situation (printouts of e-mails, photographs, screenshots of the screen, a copy of the contract (if any), transfer receipts or history of banking transactions, and so on). In general, everything that will help prove your case and find swindlers.

How an experienced lawyer can help in this situation

If you do not know what to do and what to do, having become a victim of money fraud, want to clarify where to go or where to consult on the issue of paperwork, contact a lawyer specializing in these issues. He will definitely help you find the right way to resolve the issue.

Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation will be applied to a fraudster who cheated you for money, according to which a fine, correctional labor, compulsory or compulsory, imprisonment can be imposed on him. In some situations, it is possible to file a claim for compensation for moral and material damage, a lawyer will also be able to tell about this in more detail, assessing your situation.