A criminal case against the coder of a criminal scam group has begun to be considered in the Partizansky district court of Minsk, BelTA has learned.
One person involved, a resident of Minsk, who joined a criminal group at the age of a minor, was brought to trial. At the time of the trial, he is already 18 years old. He is in custody.
As it became known, the young man finished 11 classes, but after studying officially did not find a job.
According to the charge announced today in court, from March 2021 to the detention on November 22, 2022, using computer equipment and the Internet, the guy committed attempted theft and theft by modifying computer information as part of an organized group.
The state prosecutor, reading out the charge, elaborated on the scheme of criminal activity, the functions and responsibilities of its participants. The functions of the members of the organized group were distributed. There were drop guides, drops, weavers, workers, mentors, etc. In particular, the accused and other persons, acting as part of an organized group, as coders (software developers) provided guidance to the criminal activities of the organized group by creating and providing technical support for channels, chats and chatbots in the Telegram system, phishing Internet resources, as well as other software necessary for the functioning of the organized group including for accepting new members and creating hyperlinks to phishing Internet resources.
As for the functions of the members of the organized group, they included the development of phishing sites and filling them with content and materials, hosting phishing websites and their administration, changing domain names, developing and maintaining software and hardware tools for interaction between phishing sites and chatbots to transmit information about the actions of phishing visitors to the participants of the organized group. sites (victims), including the card account access details entered by them.
Three victims came to court today. A number of others did not appear at the court session. In total, 41 victims are being tried in the case. Witnesses were called at a later time.
One person involved, a resident of Minsk, who joined a criminal group at the age of a minor, was brought to trial. At the time of the trial, he is already 18 years old. He is in custody.
As it became known, the young man finished 11 classes, but after studying officially did not find a job.
According to the charge announced today in court, from March 2021 to the detention on November 22, 2022, using computer equipment and the Internet, the guy committed attempted theft and theft by modifying computer information as part of an organized group.
The state prosecutor, reading out the charge, elaborated on the scheme of criminal activity, the functions and responsibilities of its participants. The functions of the members of the organized group were distributed. There were drop guides, drops, weavers, workers, mentors, etc. In particular, the accused and other persons, acting as part of an organized group, as coders (software developers) provided guidance to the criminal activities of the organized group by creating and providing technical support for channels, chats and chatbots in the Telegram system, phishing Internet resources, as well as other software necessary for the functioning of the organized group including for accepting new members and creating hyperlinks to phishing Internet resources.
As for the functions of the members of the organized group, they included the development of phishing sites and filling them with content and materials, hosting phishing websites and their administration, changing domain names, developing and maintaining software and hardware tools for interaction between phishing sites and chatbots to transmit information about the actions of phishing visitors to the participants of the organized group. sites (victims), including the card account access details entered by them.
Three victims came to court today. A number of others did not appear at the court session. In total, 41 victims are being tried in the case. Witnesses were called at a later time.
