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18-year-old Kanan committed fraud, deceiving 22 people in Baku when buying mobile phones and mopeds. As reported by Oxu.Az with reference to musavat.com, the youth acted according to the same scheme.

Thus, he contacted people who posted ads for the sale of their phones and mopeds on online platforms and arranged a meeting. Kanan invited mobile phone sellers to famous restaurants and teahouses in the city. All his victims were selling iPhones. Having gained trust during the conversation, he took the smartphone in his hands allegedly to check the camera or test the Internet connection. Kanan organized meetings in separate rooms so that the owners of the phones could not see him leaving the establishment. The victims also had to pay the bills for food and drinks.

Kanan acted similarly when buying mopeds. Having expressed a desire to buy a vehicle, he took it under the pretext of conducting a test drive and disappeared from the meeting place. Kanan sold the stolen mobile devices at a reduced price. Some of them were confiscated by the police before the sale. Since the mopeds did not have registration documents, he dismantled them and sold them as spare parts.

According to the case materials, 17 people lost their phones, and 5 lost their mopeds.

During the trial, it turned out that some of the victims did not file a complaint, since their phones were returned before the sale.

The court found Kanan guilty and sentenced him to 3 years and 6 months in prison.

In Baku, a man who wanted to take the post of the head of the district Executive Authority (EA) became a victim of fraud. He gave 62-year-old Akif Guliyev 20,000 manats out of the agreed 400,000 manats, but later realized that he had been deceived.

As Oxu.Az reports with reference to musavat.com, this is not the first crime of the accused. Previously, he was twice held accountable for similar acts and is currently serving a sentence for theft.

According to the information, another scam of A. Guliyev was revealed after his arrest. This time, he promised an acquaintance named Arzuman to help him appoint him to the post of the head of the Executive Authority of the Dashkesan district, stating that this would require 400,000 manats. Arzuman gave him 20,000 manats, but, not having received what he promised, he contacted law enforcement agencies. During the trial, audio recordings were presented as evidence, in which A. Guliyev confesses to the crime.

A resident of Hajigabul became a victim of cyber scammers, the damage amounted to 27,283 manats. As Report informs, this was reported by the head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan, Police Lieutenant Colonel Elshad Hajiyev.

According to him, the citizen received a call from a number whose international telephone code (+94…) was similar to the Azerbaijani one (AZE +994). The victim was told that he was supposedly supposed to receive an insurance payment, and for this, online approval was required.

Thus, a loan in the amount of 21 thousand manats was issued in the name of the citizen, the remaining funds, that is, 6,283 manats, were on the victim’s card.

“We once again urge citizens to be critical of unknown calls, attractive offers of earnings, insurance and other payments. You should not communicate with people who called or wrote a message from an unknown number; they should be blocked immediately,” wrote E. Gadzhiev.