Scammers Pose as Tax Officials and Demand Money in Mykolaiv Region

In Mykolaiv Oblast, scammers are demanding money from business owners while posing as heads of state tax inspectorates. They may also try to provoke entrepreneurs into other illegal acts.

The Internal Security Department of the Main Department of the State Tax Service in Mykolaiv Oblast urges business owners and entrepreneurs to stay alert and not fall for provocations by people claiming to be tax officials.

If you receive such calls, report them using the following numbers:

• 102 — police;
• (0512) 50-19-13 — Main Department of the State Tax Service in Mykolaiv Oblast.

In carrying out its duties, the State Tax Service acts exclusively within the limits of the current legislation of Ukraine.

We previously reported:

• Fuel, apartments and other people’s money: scammers behind bars swindled nearly one million hryvnias
• $620,000 for “protection”: major scandal at the top of the Security Service of Ukraine
• In Mykolaiv, a lieutenant colonel took dollars and threatened businesses — but paid just 391 hryvnias
• “Overseers” gang extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars, terrorizing businesses and service members
• A criminal “debt”: Mykolaiv racketeer terrorized entrepreneurs until he was put behind bars