A former deputy chairman of the russian government lost 13 million rubles because he wanted to edit a Wikipedia article about himself.

At the very beginning of the 90s, Viktor Ilyushin headed the secretariat of the President of the RSFSR, and in 1996-1997 he served as deputy chairman of the government. On June 7, Ilyushin received a call from scammers. They introduced themselves as Wikipedia administrators and persuaded the former official to install a program that would supposedly help correct information on Wiki.

The clever one provided them in this way with the necessary access to his bank account. In just a few days -surprise, surprise- Viktor Vasilyevich lost 12.9 million rubles. A criminal case has been opened for theft on an especially large scale.

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