« Scammers in robes? » Estonia is violently discussing the history of “scammers” from the Narva Hospital
“He comes to the Madame House, 40 years old. She introduced herself as an employee of the social department. She said that she was entitled to a pension. Naturally, she asked the documents“: Information that scammers are now walking around the hospital wards and using the weak condition of patients to lure documents and money from them on Facebook recently. In the post, a member of the group “Russian -speaking Estonia”, Narvityka Tatyana, told the story of her mother, who believed the fraudster, but, fortunately, had no documents with her. Rusdelfi He turned for comments to the police and the Narva hospital.
It turned out, according to the hospital’s employees that the situation described occurred in October last year, but then it was almost a mass phenomenon in the hospitals of Ida-Virumaa.
Employees of the Narva Hospital just at that time received a message from the administration that you need to be vigilant. “There were reports of cases of fraud in which unknown persons, introducing themselves to social workers, penetrate patients and, under various pretexts, are trying to get documents from them and, possibly, cash. In some cases, attackers can be dressed in a medical form to cause less suspicion,” said this official message.
“We can assure that in our hospital, such cases are considered with complete seriousness, and the entire territory of the institution is under video surveillance,” Lenno added. “Nevertheless, upon receipt of information with a great delay, checking circumstances and taking the necessary measures becomes significantly difficult.”
According to a member of the board of the Narva Hospital, if additional information subsequently appears, he will make every effort to contact law enforcement, if necessary.
The police department and border guard replied that information about this particular case did not receive them. They also added a request to report such cases in a timely manner, so that there was an opportunity to find scammers trying to deceive people.
In the continuation of the posted post, the author, Tatyana Yulinskaya, wrote that after the mother’s discharge from the hospital, they went to the social department together, in which they were told that workers did not go to hospitals. “Talk to your parents, with relatives, warn,” Tatyana wrote an appeal to all members of the group.
The post of Narvityka collected more than 260 comments. Users share their personal experience in them, talk about calls with suspicious offers. Group members emphasize: scammers are becoming more impudent, and the personal data storage system is increasingly vulnerable.
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