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Three Los Angeles residents have been found guilty of laundering more than $ 2.5 million with Target gift cards. According to KTLA, the trio received information about them from Chinese phishers via WeChat.
All three of them are from China, the oldest of them is only 35 years old. According to the investigators ' version, with which the court agreed, they were the middle link of a large-scale transnational group. It all started with calls that victims received from people posing as law enforcement officers or government officials.
They claimed that the addressee of the call was a victim of criminals and either his identity or money was stolen from his accounts. In some cases, targeted phishing emails were sent to email addresses on behalf of support services of various banks and companies.
To resolve the difficulties encountered, victims were asked to send payment in the form of Target gift cards. As a rule, phishers asked for more than one card, and the minimum cost was to be $ 500. Having accumulated at least five thousand such cards, the attackers sold them to the three defendants.
Those, in turn, used their cards to buy a lot of goods and services with the help of drops. One of these drops has already appeared in court and was sentenced to 20 months in prison. The trio itself will find out about its terms in January 2024. Each of them faces 20 years in prison.
All three of them are from China, the oldest of them is only 35 years old. According to the investigators ' version, with which the court agreed, they were the middle link of a large-scale transnational group. It all started with calls that victims received from people posing as law enforcement officers or government officials.
They claimed that the addressee of the call was a victim of criminals and either his identity or money was stolen from his accounts. In some cases, targeted phishing emails were sent to email addresses on behalf of support services of various banks and companies.
To resolve the difficulties encountered, victims were asked to send payment in the form of Target gift cards. As a rule, phishers asked for more than one card, and the minimum cost was to be $ 500. Having accumulated at least five thousand such cards, the attackers sold them to the three defendants.
Those, in turn, used their cards to buy a lot of goods and services with the help of drops. One of these drops has already appeared in court and was sentenced to 20 months in prison. The trio itself will find out about its terms in January 2024. Each of them faces 20 years in prison.
