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“Employees of the Department for organizing the fight against the unlawful use of information and communication technologies of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, on suspicion of assisting telephone scammers from Ukraine, detained four defendants, two of whom are local residents,” said an official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Russia Irina Volk.
It was previously established that the detainees were part of a group whose members were stealing funds from the bank accounts of citizens of the Russian Federation. Accomplices located on the territory of Ukraine from specially equipped call centers called Russians on behalf of security and technical support employees of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. In a telephone conversation, they reported that foreign devices were allegedly connected to the citizen’s personal Internet banking account, or that fraudulent transactions had been detected with his accounts. Under the pretext of checking, the victim was sent a link. It led to a site with malicious programs, the installation of which provided the scammers with remote control of all applications installed on the smartphone.
The attackers knew that in Russia large transfers between individuals are blocked by the bank security system. Therefore, after receiving remote control over a citizen’s Internet banking, they bought expensive electronics from various online stores, which they paid for from the victims’ bank accounts. Then, participants in the criminal scheme located in the Russian Federation received the ordered equipment and sold it through online free classified ad services. Part of the funds was converted into cryptocurrency assets and sent to Ukrainian employers.
“As a result of operational-search activities, information was obtained about the involvement of the detainees in at least 30 episodes of illegal activities.
Searches were carried out at the residence addresses of the suspects, as a result of which 16 million rubles, several dozen mobile phones in original packaging, more than a hundred bank and SIM cards, mobile phones, laptops, as well as other items and documents of evidentiary value were seized.
Investigators from the territorial divisions of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs have opened criminal cases based on crimes under Articles 158 and 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Three of the defendants were taken into custody; one was subject to a procedural coercive measure in the form of an obligation to appear.
Measures are being taken to establish all episodes of illegal activities of the detainees and their accomplices,” Irina Volk clarified.
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It was previously established that the detainees were part of a group whose members were stealing funds from the bank accounts of citizens of the Russian Federation. Accomplices located on the territory of Ukraine from specially equipped call centers called Russians on behalf of security and technical support employees of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. In a telephone conversation, they reported that foreign devices were allegedly connected to the citizen’s personal Internet banking account, or that fraudulent transactions had been detected with his accounts. Under the pretext of checking, the victim was sent a link. It led to a site with malicious programs, the installation of which provided the scammers with remote control of all applications installed on the smartphone.
The attackers knew that in Russia large transfers between individuals are blocked by the bank security system. Therefore, after receiving remote control over a citizen’s Internet banking, they bought expensive electronics from various online stores, which they paid for from the victims’ bank accounts. Then, participants in the criminal scheme located in the Russian Federation received the ordered equipment and sold it through online free classified ad services. Part of the funds was converted into cryptocurrency assets and sent to Ukrainian employers.
“As a result of operational-search activities, information was obtained about the involvement of the detainees in at least 30 episodes of illegal activities.
Searches were carried out at the residence addresses of the suspects, as a result of which 16 million rubles, several dozen mobile phones in original packaging, more than a hundred bank and SIM cards, mobile phones, laptops, as well as other items and documents of evidentiary value were seized.
Investigators from the territorial divisions of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs have opened criminal cases based on crimes under Articles 158 and 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Three of the defendants were taken into custody; one was subject to a procedural coercive measure in the form of an obligation to appear.
Measures are being taken to establish all episodes of illegal activities of the detainees and their accomplices,” Irina Volk clarified.
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