A 25-year-old man in Mogilev, Belarus, has been charged with fraud after he took out three microloans totaling $580 in the name of his friend's 50-year-old mother. He gained access to her bank card and phone under the pretext of withdrawing winnings from an online casino, according to the Cybercrime Department of the Lenin District Police.
The investigation revealed that the man was a regular online casino player and had briefly lived in the woman's apartment. After obtaining access to her card and phone, he took out the loans without her knowledge and deleted the notifications about them. He used part of the funds to pay off his own debts and transferred some to his online casino account.
The woman only discovered the loans a month later, after the man had moved out, and by that time, the interest on the microloans had already increased significantly.