Prosecutors of the Left Bank District Prosecutor's Office in Dnipro have uncovered and halted the activities of a fraudulent call center operating in the city.

The investigation has established that the participants in the scheme posed as bank or government employees during phone calls to the victims. After obtaining confidential information, they transferred the victims' funds to the accounts of the scheme's participants and subsequently withdrew them. 

During the searches, equipment and handwritten notes were seized.

The pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings is being conducted under part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The full circle of individuals involved in the operation of the fraudulent network and the victims is being established.

Operational support was provided by employees of the Eastern Regional Office of the State Tax Service of Ukraine with the armed support of the border response unit "Dozor".

The Office of the Prosecutor General systematically combats and dismantles fraudulent call centers. In just the past few months, prosecutors, together with law enforcement agencies of Ukraine and international partners, have shut down 277 such sites in Kyiv, Dnipro, as well as in Cherkasy, Zaporizhzhia, Rivne, Lviv, Poltava, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, and Odesa regions.

The Office of the Prosecutor General urges citizens to be vigilant: never share your card details, CVV codes, passwords, or one-time codes with strangers. More information about the Office's work and how to protect your data can be viewed in the video on the YouTube channel.

Note: according to Article 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is presumed innocent of committing a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until their guilt is proven in a lawful manner and established by a court verdict.