Scammers defraud residents of €155,500 in three Lithuanian areas

Scammers defrauded residents of about €155,500 in Vilnius, Kaunas and Utena County, LRT reports, citing police.

A woman born in 1948 told Kaunas police on Thursday that unknown Russian-speaking callers had contacted her at home in Kaunas on May 18. They claimed to represent a foreign company and said she needed to withdraw investment units. The callers persuaded her to sell her apartment and defrauded her of €92,000.

Another woman, born in 1965, reported that she had found a Google advertisement in May offering an opportunity to invest through an online investment platform. After transferring money, she discovered that €50,000 had been fraudulently taken from her.

In a separate case in Vilnius, a woman born in 1975 entered her bank login details while trying to access a potentially fake bank website. A total of €9,949 was then fraudulently withdrawn from her bank account.

Utena police said a woman born in 1968 reported that €3,564 had been fraudulently transferred from her bank account between July 30 and August 7.

Pretrial investigations have been launched into the fraud cases.