In Ukraine, scammers who were offering jobs in Zelensky’s office were detained

Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office Andriy Yermak said on his Telegram channel that a group of fraudsters had been detained, led by a man with the same surname who posed as Yermak’s “cousin” and offered a high-ranking job for $100,000.

“Just learned from the police that they caught a group of fraudsters ‘red-handed.’ It was led by a certain Yermak D.S., who claimed to be my cousin,” the head of the president’s office wrote.

According to Yermak, using this cover story, the scammers tried to extort $100,000 in exchange for supposedly arranging someone a senior position in the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

On November 5, it was reported that a resident of the town of Pikalyovo in Leningrad Oblast is suspected of setting up a communications node in his apartment that Ukrainian fraudsters used to steal money from Russians.

Law enforcement said the man created a stationary technical center at home through which scammers abroad could call residents of Russia. Police seized two GSM gateways, routers, and roughly 240 SIM cards from various carriers.

Earlier, a Russian schoolgirl, at the request of scammers, smashed a neighbor’s window.