The police detained a gang of swindlers who lured large sums of money from people. This was reported by the press center of the National Police of Ukraine,.

Law enforcers stopped the activities of a criminal group of four people. All of them are residents of Zaporozhye at the age from 29 to 30 years.

The participants of the criminal group managed to deceive almost 250 Ukrainians who have problems with overweight. Attackers offered their customers fictitious systems and equipment for weight loss, which did not meet the stated technical requirements.

For ad placement, scammers used an Internet site created by their order.

The operatives found that the scammers appeared to be doctors with extensive experience. Attackers forced customers to view the purchase of a personal device for effective weight loss. In addition, its cost was overestimated by several dozen times.

On the "unique" model of losing weight, malefactors managed to earn significant amounts of money. So, in one of the cases the victim transferred more than 600 thousand hryvnia to the account of intruders.

In general, the amount of proceeds of a criminal group is about 5 million hryvnia.

In the future, the victims, who were already "hooked", the perpetrators forced for a long time to transfer to their bank accounts significant amounts of money.

These funds were required by other members of the criminal group. They, under the guise of employees of state supervisory bodies, demanded money from the clients for solving the problems that the victims had because of the use of the acquired equipment.