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The police sent an indictment against three defendants to court - the defendants face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property for stealing money using phishing.
This was reported in the press service of the Main Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine in the Odessa region.
Investigators found out that the group during July-November 2023 used phishing to steal funds from citizens' bank accounts. The organizer of the scheme attached a previously convicted acquaintance and his minor cohabitant to it. Together, they created a phishing page that looks like one of the online services of a popular online trading platform in Ukraine.
Later, posing as buyers, they looked for sellers and convinced them of their intention to purchase the goods. The defendants offered to follow the link to their resource for free delivery of goods. Wishing to sell goods, people entered their personal data and bank card details (number, СѴѴ code, card expiration date), as well as provided information for logging into Internet banking.
Thus, the attackers received all the information they needed to access the accounts of the victims and withdraw funds from them. The police found that as a result of their actions, 21 people were injured, and the total amount of damage caused exceeds a million hryvnias.
All three will be tried under Parts 4 and 5 of Article 190, and the senior members of the group will also be tried under Part 1 of Article 304 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The defendants face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
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