Boyarintsev Boris Ivanovich

Boyarintsev Boris Ivanovich

Biography

2025

Telephone scammers lured ₽52 million from a professor at Moscow State University. Couriers came to him 16 times

Telephone scammers lured ₽52 million from a 77-year-old professor at Moscow State University, while couriers came to him 16 times in four months. The teacher sold two apartments in Moscow and handed over all his savings to the attackers. This was announced in May 2025 by the telegram channel Baza.

The fraud scheme began in December 2024 with a call asking them to dictate the code from Public services"." Then the false worker FSB convinced the professor to transfer all savings "to safe accounts" to allegedly protect against criminals.

From the end of December 2024 to the end of January 2025, the professor withdrew money from deposits and transferred them through couriers in different districts of Moscow. Most often, an unknown pensioner came for money, which was also used by scammers.

According to the telegram channel Baza, in March 2025, the attackers convinced the man to sell two apartments belonging to him. The first apartment on Leninsky Prospekt was sold for ₽11 million, the second on Veshnyakovskaya Street - for ₽7,6 million. The professor also handed over the entire proceeds to couriers.

The daughter of the professor suspected something was wrong in early May 2025, when her father stopped communicating. At this time, realtors began to call her demanding to free up living space for the new owners of the sold apartments.

The daughter tried to talk to her father, but the man refused to explain anything. Then she turned to a lawyer who wrote a statement to the police. After that, it turned out that the professor had indeed become a victim of scammers.

Only after the intervention of his daughter did the professor realize the deception and began to cooperate with the investigation. Law enforcement officers opened a criminal case under the article "Fraud." The total damage was ₽52 635,308.

Fraudsters used a classic scheme with the representation of law enforcement officers. They convinced the victim of the need to urgently transfer funds to protect them from an allegedly impending crime. Such schemes are widespread among telephone scammers.^[1]

Suicide

On May 27, 2025, it became known that the former professor of Moscow State University, 78-year-old Boris Boyarintsev, committed suicide. He became a victim of telephone scammers, to whom he gave almost 53 million rubles.

According to Gazeta.Ru, in December 2024, unknown persons contacted Boyarintsev and convinced him that the family was in danger. During one of the calls, the scammers asked the professor to dictate a code from a message that would allow him to log into his account on "Public services." Then Boyarintsev was called allegedly by an FSB officer and informed about the need to put all his savings "on safe accounts." Believing the criminals, the man for a month - until the end of January 2025 - withdrew funds from his accounts and transferred them to couriers. In addition, Boyarintsev sold two Moscow apartments - on Leninsky Prospekt for 11 million rubles and on Veshnyakovskaya Street for 7.6 million rubles. He also gave this money to the attackers. In total, fraudsters stole 52.64 million rubles from a pensioner.

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Later, the victim's daughter Irina realized that her father was a victim of telephone criminals. They wrote a statement to the police, on the basis of which a criminal case was initiated under the article "fraud."

On May 24, 2025, Boyarintsev went out of town to his 79-year-old friend Yuri. Together they went to the bathhouse and then went to bed in different rooms. The next day in the morning, Yuri discovered Boyarintsev's body. Law enforcement officers found in the deceased's belongings a copy of the decision to initiate a criminal case. The pensioner's daughter told the Caution, News Telegram channel that her father had taken his own life.

According to preliminary data, the former professor of Moscow State University committed suicide after becoming a victim TASS of telephone fraudsters, - quotes the words of law enforcement officers.[2]

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