Female resident of Tashkent deceived by scammers who promised her an inheritance from Africa

A resident of the capital sold her house and transferred $90,000 to scammers who promised to give her an inheritance from a relative in Africa. Umidjon Khamrokulov, an employee of the MIA Cybersecurity Center, announced this at a briefing.

As it turned out, the citizen received an email from Nigeria, which said that she had been left an inheritance in Africa. Then the scammers demanded a certain amount from her in order to send the inheritance to Uzbekistan.

“Some letter arrived from Nigeria, which talked about inheritance. They demanded money to transfer it. The citizen sold her house, transferred $90,000 and wanted to transfer more. Thus, claiming that they could not cross the border, they fraudulently obtained a large sum of money,” Umidjon Khamrokulov said.