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The Sverdlovsk police detained a group operating under the guise of the BlaBlaCar website.
According to the head of the press service of the regional garrison of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Valery Gorelykh, six residents of Lesnoy, as part of an organized group, acted under the pretext of providing transportation services on the website of fellow travelers BlaBlaCar. During the searches, cell phones, hard drives, system units, bank cards and a laptop used to deceive citizens were found and seized.
During interrogation, the defendants confessed, assuring that they were ready to compensate for the material damage caused to people. Before the trial, two suspects were taken into custody as a preventive measure, and the rest were given a written undertaking not to leave and proper behavior. All six have no previous convictions and are not officially employed.
"The organizer of the group administered an automated application (bot) in an instant messaging program designed to create phishing links to sites that are outwardly similar to the original Internet resources "Bla-bla-car" and "Avito". All this made it possible to illegally receive the payment details of citizens' bank cards, as well as their money. Another detainee attracted the direct executors of the thefts, who posted relevant ads on the original Internet resource Bla-bla-car, communicated with citizens and sent them fake links to payment. In addition, the scammers registered the domain names of the sites and carried out operations to transfer stolen funds. Operatives of the UBK of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the region established 34 criminal episodes. In total, more than 3,000 people could have suffered from such fraud. A joint investigation of the police and the TFR is underway", said Colonel Gorelykh.
According to the head of the press service of the regional garrison of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Valery Gorelykh, six residents of Lesnoy, as part of an organized group, acted under the pretext of providing transportation services on the website of fellow travelers BlaBlaCar. During the searches, cell phones, hard drives, system units, bank cards and a laptop used to deceive citizens were found and seized.
During interrogation, the defendants confessed, assuring that they were ready to compensate for the material damage caused to people. Before the trial, two suspects were taken into custody as a preventive measure, and the rest were given a written undertaking not to leave and proper behavior. All six have no previous convictions and are not officially employed.
"The organizer of the group administered an automated application (bot) in an instant messaging program designed to create phishing links to sites that are outwardly similar to the original Internet resources "Bla-bla-car" and "Avito". All this made it possible to illegally receive the payment details of citizens' bank cards, as well as their money. Another detainee attracted the direct executors of the thefts, who posted relevant ads on the original Internet resource Bla-bla-car, communicated with citizens and sent them fake links to payment. In addition, the scammers registered the domain names of the sites and carried out operations to transfer stolen funds. Operatives of the UBK of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the region established 34 criminal episodes. In total, more than 3,000 people could have suffered from such fraud. A joint investigation of the police and the TFR is underway", said Colonel Gorelykh.
