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Operatives of the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, together with employees of the Department" K " of the SEB of the Federal Security Service of Russia, stopped the activities of members of an...

In Crimea, a representative of one of the marketplaces turned to the duty part of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Simferopol with a statement about fraud. The man told the police that he identified a suspicious personal account of a client who placed orders for...

The largest amount of withdrawals caused panic in the cryptocurrency market. In the largest cybercrime operation in German history, conducted by German law enforcement agencies jointly with the FBI, in mid-January 2024, about 50,000 bitcoins (BTC) were seized, amounting to approximately $2.1...

Will a kind gesture towards users affect public safety? Amazon, which owns the Ring home doorbell division, has announced that it will end the practice of providing police with access to recordings from users video cameras. Next week, the company will deactivate the "Request For Assistance"...

Investigators of the National Police of Ukraine are looking for persons who became victims of the S-Group fund, on behalf of which investors were offered to invest in tokens and receive passive income. The founders of the fund offered to invest in fictitious tokens, which are not on the list of...

Employees of the department for combating cybercrime of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Perm Territory, together with operatives of the criminal investigation department of the Tomsk region and with the forceful support of soldiers of the Russian Guard...

The swindler, pretending to be an employee of a state customs warehouse, created fake groups on social networks where he posted advertisements about “confiscated” goods. He took advance payments from buyers and then blocked them. Currently, the person involved has received 21 suspicions of...

In the office, which was located in the Primorsky district of the city, data on citizens’ bank accounts was collected to withdraw funds from them. He was exposed by employees of the cybercrime department in the Odessa region of the Cyber Police Department of the NPU, together with employees of...

Investigators from the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Stavropol Territory have completed an investigation into a criminal case involving 57 episodes of theft of money through fraud and theft of finances from bank...

The police opened a criminal case against the scammers’ assistant, “dropa,” to whose account the deceived elderly woman transferred 320 thousand rubles, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Krasnodar Territory told RAPSI. It was...

The accused was found guilty of committing crimes under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud”. According to investigators, from February to April 2023, the 37-year-old defendant and his accomplices, in respect of whom the criminal case materials were...

More than 2,500 operators “worked” in “offices” located in almost every regional center of the country. More than 840 law enforcement officers took part in comprehensive measures to eliminate the activities of fraudulent call centers, 660 of whom were police officers. As a result, cells of...

Operatives of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kursk region, in cooperation with colleagues from the city of Khanty-Mansiysk, detained five suspects in a series of frauds committed against residents of several regions of Russia. “It has been previously established that the...

Indian police are investigating dozens of fake cryptocurrency investment websites and mobile apps that may be masquerading as crypto exchange CoinDCX. Delhi Police said it has received numerous complaints from affected users who invested in digital assets. For example, a 24-year-old Indian...

Chinese law enforcement authorities say they have uncovered a large underground money laundering network involving virtual assets. The creators and operators of the exchanger have already been arrested. In November 2022, the police in Qingdao, Shandong Province, came to the attention of the...

Employees of police department No. 3 of the Krivoy Rog district police department established that the suspects posted information about the sale of goods on one of the advertisement sites on the Internet. A mandatory condition of sale was partial or full subscription to a bank card. After...

There is a new topic for discussion in the criminal community. German law enforcement agencies conducted a successful operation to seize the servers of the Kingdom Market darknet market, known for selling drugs, malware, forged documents and other tools for cybercriminals. Currently, the...

In the fall of 2022, a resident of the Kostroma region contacted the duty station of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the city of Kostroma, reporting that she had purchased a boat motor through a well-known Internet service. The woman paid for the purchase by bank transfer in the...

Employees of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Tomsk region detained three local residents. They are suspected of committing several episodes of telephone fraud. "It was previously established that in the city of Tomsk, malefactors...

Employees of the Inter-municipal Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia "Orenburg" detained two residents of the region. They are suspected of serial fraud using Internet technologies. "It was previously established that the attackers developed two criminal schemes. The first...