Ukrainian entrepreneurs were deceived by scammers, selling non -existent generators during the Blekuts and demanding a full prepayment. As a result, the victims listed about 1 million hryvnias to scammers, but the goods were never received.

This was told by the National Police of Ukraine. During the mass disconnects of light in Ukraine against the backdrop of Russian shelling, the attackers organized a scheme of fraud using a desperate business need for generators.

Fraudsters created a fictitious company and opened a page on one of the popular trading Internet sites, where they offered electro-generator stations for sale. However, not a single product was available - all the money that entrepreneurs transferred for the goods found themselves in the pockets of the swindlers.

A group of scammers, which included residents of Poltava region, Ivano-Frankivsk, Donbass, Kiev region and capital, acted according to the classical scheme of deception. They convinced the customers that the generators are in the warehouse, but they could only be sent after a full prepayment. In conditions of permanent Blekuts, entrepreneurs who tried to save their business, without hesitation, agreed with the terms of scammers and transferred funds.

To make their " However, only the money entered the front company, it was immediately transferred to personal bank cards of the participants in the scheme. After that, the fantomic sellers disappeared-they stopped in touch, and the phones and sites deleted.

Criminal police operatives, together with the investigators of the National Police, conducted a large -scale investigation and established all participants in the fraudulent scheme. Law enforcement officers conducted 10 authorized searches in different regions of the country, having seized:.

The total amount of damage caused to entrepreneurs amounted to about 1,000,000 hryvnias. After a thorough collection of evidence, the investigators of the National Police informed the defendants about suspicion under the articles of h. 2 tbsp. 28 and h. 3 tbsp. 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fraud committed by a group of persons in a military or emergency, which caused significant damage to the victim). For their crimes, scammers face up to 5 years in prison.