In Petropavlovsk, officers of the special rapid response unit prevented a man from transferring 1.1 million tenge to scammers after spotting a 57-year-old man holding a bundle of cash, reports infohub.kz.
According to the information portal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, officers of the special rapid response unit of the Police Department of the North Kazakhstan Region regularly patrol shopping centers from 9:00 a.m. until closing. One officer in uniform maintains public order, while another, in plainclothes, focuses on preventing online fraud.
On this occasion, Karasai Botpayev and Baurzhan Akhmet were on duty at one of the shopping centers. Karasai noticed a man with a bundle of cash talking nervously on the phone near an ATM. The officer introduced himself and showed his service ID. At first, the man did not trust him, so the officer had to call over his partner in uniform. Only then did the man listen to the officers.
He said he traded cryptocurrency on Binance, but when the officers asked him what Binance was, he could not answer. It turned out that he had recently seen an online advertisement about earning money, messaged the number listed on Telegram, and received an offer to "earn" on cryptocurrency. The scammers behind the advertisement sent the man "return on investment charts."
Of course, they had nothing to do with a real cryptocurrency exchange, but the man was ready to transfer a significant sum of money to the criminals. Thanks to the officers' vigilance, no damage was caused.