An off-duty police officer in the Turkistan region prevented a fraud scheme and helped a 59-year-old woman avoid losing 5 million tenge, according to infohub.kz.
As reported by the information media portal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, police officer Sherkhan Kaltursyn noticed the woman conducting a suspicious financial transaction at a bank terminal and immediately intervened.
Preliminary findings indicate that unknown individuals called the woman and claimed that a gift had been sent to her relatives by mail. They then asked her to provide a code received on her phone. Exploiting the woman's trust, the fraudsters took out a loan of 5 million tenge in her name and began persuading her to transfer the money to specified accounts. Believing the scammers, the woman went to the bank to follow their instructions.
However, the police officer promptly recognized the fraudulent scheme, explained to the woman that she had been a victim of deception, and helped prevent the transfer of funds.
"Can you hear me? What was that? Who did you give the phone to? I don't understand," the person on the other end of the line said.
Thanks to the timely intervention of the police officer, the 5 million tenge did not fall into the hands of the criminals, and the woman avoided financial losses.