The fraud became known thanks to the woman's son. On February 11, he received a strange message from his mother: she was urgently leaving on a business trip. This seemed suspicious - she never went on business trips, and it was always customary for the family to discuss plans. It was not possible to contact his mother after this message.
The worried son contacted the police and the volunteers of "Liza Alert." The next day, it was possible to find out that the woman had bought tickets for the Syzran-Perm train. The guy immediately went to Syzran, where he found his mother already in the carriage.
It turned out that all this time she had been under the control of scammers. They deceived her through the scheme with "Gosuslugi": the woman gave them the code from the SMS, after which the scammers gained access to her account and began to spin the victim. Natalia was sent to Perm through the "witness protection system". The woman was in deep shock, she does not remember many details. However, it is known that in a few days she transferred 121 million rubles to the scammers - these were her personal savings, as well as funds from the company where she worked.