Shaban Daniel Sergeyevich

Biography

2025: Telephone scammers lured 9 million rubles by posing as employees of Rosfinmonitoring

On March 10, 2025, it became known that the son of the former deputy chairman of the board of Belgazprombank Sergei Shaban was a victim of telephone fraudsters. The attackers lured about 9 million rubles from 21-year-old Daniel Shaban, posing as employees of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring).

According to the Telegram channel Baza, on February 26, 2025, Daniel, who is a student at the Higher School of Economics (HSE), received a call from scammers disguised as Rosfinmonitoring specialists. They informed the young man that the money in his accounts was allegedly at risk and convinced him to transfer it to a "safe account." To do this, Daniel was instructed to withdraw cash and transfer it to the courier.

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The young man followed the instructions of the attackers: he withdrew funds in the amount of 70 thousand dollars (about 6 million rubles at the exchange rate as of March 11, 2025) and 35 thousand euros (3.3 million rubles), and then put the money in a box, disguising the packs of cash with sweaters and notebooks. After that, he independently called the courier, to whom he handed over the parcel.

Realizing that he was deceived, Daniel Shaban turned to law enforcement agencies. Telegram channel Baza notes that the police opened a criminal case and found a courier who took the money to the house on Novokhokhlovskaya Street in Moscow. It is known that a certain man of Slavic appearance took the box, but it was not possible to establish his identity as of March 11, 2025: the courier could not give a detailed description of the appearance of the fraudster.^[1]

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