Galina Safronova, Jõhvi Russian Basic school, Estonia
Phone scammers in Estonia
In Estonia, since the beginning of 2021, phone scammers
have swindled a total of almost 3.2 million euros from gullible people.
Almost every day, Estonian social network Facebook groups
appear warnings about phone scammers who pretend to be bank employees and ask
to confirm various transactions, extorting account holders' passwords.
In 2021, I received more than 10 such calls. Both bank
employees and the police were represented. As a rule, these scammers call from
abroad and do not know the Estonian language, they act according to the scheme
described on the Internet, which many are already familiar with from the media.
Therefore, after questions in Estonian, they turn off the phone or hang up.
Many begin to be rude, after exposing their questions.
