Employees of the Department for combating the illegal use of information and Communication Technologies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Smolensk region received operational information that in Smolensk a group of unidentified persons remotely helps telephone scammers steal money from residents of different regions of Russia.
As the police previously found out, they used the IP-telephony service to engage in mass activation of SIM cards of various mobile operators, including virtual ones, which they themselves issued to third parties. In the future, the attackers transferred fictitious subscriber numbers to scammers for making calls to citizens in order to deceive them.
One of these SIM cards was used by online fraudsters to inform a resident of Krasnodar that her cashless savings were allegedly in danger. They tried to convince the woman to transfer their 92 thousand rubles to "safe accounts", but she did not believe and interrupted the conversation. At the same time, after the incident, the citizen did not apply to the police.
Smolensk police officers identified and interviewed a resident of the capital of Kuban, and then, as a result of operational search activities, they located and delivered to the police of the regional center four alleged accomplices of scammers. They were residents of Smolensk born in 2005-2006.
In the apartment they rented, detectives found and seized 96 SIM cards of various mobile operators, 10 mobile phones, a system unit, a router and three bank cards.
Young people were questioned by the Smolensk police as witnesses in a criminal case initiated on the fact of an attempt to steal money by deception from a resident of Krasnodar. An investigation is underway.
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As the police previously found out, they used the IP-telephony service to engage in mass activation of SIM cards of various mobile operators, including virtual ones, which they themselves issued to third parties. In the future, the attackers transferred fictitious subscriber numbers to scammers for making calls to citizens in order to deceive them.
One of these SIM cards was used by online fraudsters to inform a resident of Krasnodar that her cashless savings were allegedly in danger. They tried to convince the woman to transfer their 92 thousand rubles to "safe accounts", but she did not believe and interrupted the conversation. At the same time, after the incident, the citizen did not apply to the police.
Smolensk police officers identified and interviewed a resident of the capital of Kuban, and then, as a result of operational search activities, they located and delivered to the police of the regional center four alleged accomplices of scammers. They were residents of Smolensk born in 2005-2006.
In the apartment they rented, detectives found and seized 96 SIM cards of various mobile operators, 10 mobile phones, a system unit, a router and three bank cards.
Young people were questioned by the Smolensk police as witnesses in a criminal case initiated on the fact of an attempt to steal money by deception from a resident of Krasnodar. An investigation is underway.
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