Scammers continue to develop a vein of "swine flu"

In Yekaterinburg, scammers tried to cash in on the "swine flu"
Ksenia Dubicheva, Russian Newspaper

Thousands of Yekaterinburg residents have found receipts in their mailboxes for the payment of sanitation services at the entrances of residential buildings "against bacteria and viruses (influenza A/H1N1) by irrigation." So illiterate scammers tried to cash in on the "swine flu".

For the preventive treatment of the premises, it was required to transfer 360 rubles to the specified bank details to the account of Ural-S LLC. The scammers were not too lazy: they scattered receipts similar to utility bills through the mailbox of the whole district. But the townspeople showed vigilance and no less diligence than the senders of the receipts – handwritten ads have already appeared on many entrances of the microdistrict: "Do not believe scammers! The receipts for sanitation are fake – hand them over to the police." The Chkalovsky police department has already accepted more than a dozen applications with fake receipts.

Ural-S LLC could not withstand the simplest check: the address of its office indicated in the receipts is an apartment on the first floor, recently bought out for a store where such a company has not been heard of.

The Department of Rospotrebnadzor of the Sverdlovsk region issued an official statement saying that "no recommendations for such sanitary treatment in residential buildings were issued by Ural-S LLC or any other commercial organization. In addition, the method of treatment "by irrigation" indicated in the receipt is not an effective measure for the prevention of influenza A/H1N1." Rospotrebnadzor recommends contacting law enforcement agencies to all residents who have received such a payment document.

Portal "Eternal youth" http://vechnayamolodost.ru based on the materials of AMI-TASS
22.09.2009