Residents across Lithuania reported losses totalling 321,000 euros to fraudsters over the past 24 hours, police said Friday.
In one case, a company director told Vilnius County Police on Thursday that he had not received medical equipment for which he had transferred 149,000 euros after possibly being provided with falsified bank account details.
In a separate incident, a woman born in 1964 reported that in September she received a call from unidentified Russian-speaking individuals who persuaded her to invest in an online platform. The suspects fraudulently obtained 111,000 euros from her, police said.
A Vilnius resident born in 1941 reported a similar scheme. She told authorities that on Thursday morning she received a call from Russian-speaking fraudsters posing as employees of an electricity company and police officers, who stole 34,500 euros.
Another woman, born in 1946, told police that on February 9 she received a call while in Palanga from Russian-speaking individuals claiming to be bank employees and police officers. The suspects allegedly defrauded her of 16,000 euros.
On Wednesday, a woman born in 1987 contacted the police station in Kalvarija, saying she had received a message purportedly from her bank asking her to update her company’s account details. After entering her online banking credentials, 11,000 euros was illegally withdrawn from her account.
Pretrial investigations into fraud have been opened in all cases, police said.
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