This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow.

According to police, a woman born in 1985 in March found out that "her phone number, which she stopped using, was resold to another person."

“However, she continued to use a social network with an account tied to this number,” the press service said.

The woman began correspondence with the owner of her old number, an unknown citizen answered her messages, who said that he had access to her messages on social networks.

Later, a Muscovite discovered that more than 95 thousand rubles were debited from her bank cards.

A criminal theft case has been instituted on the fact of the incident.

Earlier, an expert in the field of cybersecurity Alexei Lukatsky in an interview with RT explained how to avoid becoming a victim of a new type of fraud related to the theft of bank data.