Former Bellator middleweight champion Alexander Shlemenko In an interview with , he proposed tougher penalties for phone fraud and recounted how he had received threatening calls.
39-year-old Russian fighter Alexander Shlemenko has been competing in MMA since 2004, he won the Grand Prix and the Bellator middleweight belt. On December 15, Shlemenko will have a rematch with Alexander Ilic at the RCC tournament in Yekaterinburg.
— Have you ever received threatening messages?
— Yes, there were, but I don’t really read them. A laugh threatened me on the Ukrainian subject. But above all they threaten my wife, and these messages do not reach me. These threats always choose the weakest to assert themselves at the expense of the weakest. Why threaten me on the phone? Well, come and tell me your threats to my face. I won’t even read on the phone.
– What did they say?
“Some idiot called me by telegram and said, ‘I’m coming to beat you up with something.’ » Inappropriate clown – I blocked his number. And then I blocked it because I was afraid it was an attempt to hack my Telegram, and I know people have been hacked. And I got a message that someone was trying to log into my account, and it even showed what IP addresses they were using. And then they started calling me. I think maybe it’s related somehow, maybe it turns out that they are undergoing some sort of identification… I don’t want them to have access , that they mislead their loved ones into some kind of misconception. Now I regret it, I should have stopped this idiot at least by phone.
And then he called my wife. She handed me the phone. I took it and said, “What do you want…”. In general, we didn’t talk anymore.
— Have you ever received a call from scammers?
– Often. I can even show you that they called from a 900 number. I take this opportunity to say: “Guys, don’t believe it if they call you via Viber. That’s why they called me.” I, too, immediately explained to the person that he was a clown… Or they would have called the police, and they still talk like I had three murders on me and I was interrogated. Just a deer. In general, I would like to say that it would be great to strengthen legislation in this area,” Shlemenko told .
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