I have already told the story of three times before my nose trying to throw a pack of money (dollars) so that I could raise it, and so on. (Well, standard fraud of the 90s and early 2000s).
At the same time, I had not yet imagined (for the first time) that this was a fraud, but – my natural honesty did not allow me to “get on the pitch” of a rather primitive scheme, exploiting, mostly, the greed of the victim.
Recently told in the newspapers about another "improved" version of about the same fraud - already with the use of "high-tech", namely - ATMs.
When I read this, I stumbled on my head.
It turned out that a month ago I was also wanted to "divorce" on the "banking machine scheme", and I - again, as in the 90s, did not "buy", and the scammers washed, not salted.
It looked like this: a dark November evening, I want to take money out in the ATM on the first floor of the office building (there is free access from the street). The time is about 18:30, the main mass of office staff has long run away, so I am surprised that the row of two men to the Sberov ATM, and the first, quite small, takes the money off, I take the row for him, and the second for some reason immediately adjusts to the row behind my back, and his height is below 190, and he weighs 140 kilograms. Sometimes I don’t immediately feel very comfortable starting with such an impressive uncle behind my back in a separate room of a empty office building, and still in the dark hours of day.
Nevertheless, I need to withdraw 20 thousand rubles urgently to repay the debt, another ATM needs to be searched for another half an hour, so I heroically stand and wait for access to the promised click of the ATM.
A crazy man in front of me for a long time rapes a bankomat and finally runs out into a dark street.
I breathe with relief, move closer, and I see that the guy has not taken the money that is running out of the bankomat gap. The ATM at the same time with a human voice whispers that in 30 seconds the money will be squeezed back if it does not take it right now. The reflex works – I pick up the money and place it in the same ATM next to the adjacent horizontal surface. After that, in an attack of human love, I run out to the dark street and say, "Man! The money is yours!” Of course no one responds. I go back to the ATM, I see that wide-armed man who turns his gaze from me to money, from money to me. I say to him, "Now I'll give the money to the guard, he will then give the man when he guesses to come back." I would add that the money, by feeling (I did not count them) was a thousand-three-four, not more. Interestingly, I wonder why the man, having spent at least 10 minutes on raping the ATM, left without receiving his money, while escaping after all the torture "at the most pathetic moment", when the ATM feeds, flashes the bulbs and shows the message: "Receive your money!"
A wide-hearted man grabs the money, screams to me, “I’ll catch him now!“And he runs away. I easily get the 20,000 I need from my card and go home.
And only then, after reading in the newspaper about the scheme of this "divorce", I realized the whole danger of the situation.
If I put the money in my pocket (and I would still count them before this), the "dispersed owner" would instantly appear and say that there was not actually 3,000 rubles, but 23 or 33,000 rubles, respectively, I would owe 20-30 thousand or more, while the broader man "would confirm" that the money was much more, "and your fingerprints are on all banknotes, so we call the police."
As usual, the Russians are terribly afraid of dealing with the police, so that 20-30 thousand of each equipped guys would be virtually guaranteed. By the way, it is not the fact that behind the corner was not a feeding policeman (or just a partaker in a police shirt and with a lip shirt).
Gradually I realized with what details of my behavior I destroyed the fraudulent scheme:
1) I did not recalculate the money, and took a packet of banknotes for REBRO (my prints were almost impossible to find with all the desire)
2) Immediately put money not in the pocket, but outside the ATM.
2) After a second-and-a-half ran to catch the "victim" (which obviously could then be calculated by surveillance cameras - well, I understood it after a couple of days of reflection)
3) The commander immediately said of the desire to immediately give the money to the guard, i.e. Even the thought was not to leave money for yourself (“Eye, is it money, dear?”)
In short, people, be careful! (c) the