Law enforcement officers conducted a special operation in the regional center to detain the defendants and liquidated the so-called fraudulent mini "call center". They face up to 8 years in prison for their crimes.
It is known that the attackers pretended to be employees of the bank's security service and in a telephone conversation informed the victims, mostly women of different ages, that unauthorized persons were trying to withdraw funds from their accounts. To allegedly protect their savings, "clients" were offered to implement a certain algorithm of actions in the mobile application of a financial institution. Thus, the scammers gained access to the personal data of the victims ' bank cards, after which they transferred funds to controlled accounts. Or they forced people to transfer money to their cards themselves.
On May 29, the police detained one of the defendants immediately after he committed another crime. According to this scheme, a 26-year-old resident of Vinnytsia, previously convicted of property crimes, lured out more than 83 thousand hryvnias from a 51-year-old resident of the Khmelnitsky region, and two weeks ago deceived a 65-year-old resident of Lviv region for almost 17,000 hryvnias.
The attacker had a 21-year-old accomplice, also a resident of Vinnytsia, who was still looking for low-income young people who wanted to provide their bank cards for a symbolic reward to transfer money to victims.
Also, in one of the villages of the Vinnytsia region, in a rented house, law enforcement officers found a specially equipped place in a room with sound-proofing films and materials for absorbing extraneous noise, where young people directly deceived citizens.
During the authorized searches, law enforcement officers seized mobile phones, bank and SIM cards, as well as other physical evidence.
The organizer of the fraudulent scheme, the police detained in a procedural manner and placed in a temporary detention center. Investigators have already informed both men of suspicion under Part 4 of Article 190 (Fraud). The Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Exposing the criminal activities of the defendants was carried out by investigators, operatives of the police department No. 3 of the Vinnytsia regional department together with employees of the Criminal Investigation Department and other operational services with the power support of the special unit of the KORD, under the procedural guidance of the Vinnytsia District Prosecutor's Office.
Now a number of episodes have been documented and activities are continuing to identify all the victims.
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It is known that the attackers pretended to be employees of the bank's security service and in a telephone conversation informed the victims, mostly women of different ages, that unauthorized persons were trying to withdraw funds from their accounts. To allegedly protect their savings, "clients" were offered to implement a certain algorithm of actions in the mobile application of a financial institution. Thus, the scammers gained access to the personal data of the victims ' bank cards, after which they transferred funds to controlled accounts. Or they forced people to transfer money to their cards themselves.
On May 29, the police detained one of the defendants immediately after he committed another crime. According to this scheme, a 26-year-old resident of Vinnytsia, previously convicted of property crimes, lured out more than 83 thousand hryvnias from a 51-year-old resident of the Khmelnitsky region, and two weeks ago deceived a 65-year-old resident of Lviv region for almost 17,000 hryvnias.
The attacker had a 21-year-old accomplice, also a resident of Vinnytsia, who was still looking for low-income young people who wanted to provide their bank cards for a symbolic reward to transfer money to victims.
Also, in one of the villages of the Vinnytsia region, in a rented house, law enforcement officers found a specially equipped place in a room with sound-proofing films and materials for absorbing extraneous noise, where young people directly deceived citizens.
During the authorized searches, law enforcement officers seized mobile phones, bank and SIM cards, as well as other physical evidence.
The organizer of the fraudulent scheme, the police detained in a procedural manner and placed in a temporary detention center. Investigators have already informed both men of suspicion under Part 4 of Article 190 (Fraud). The Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Exposing the criminal activities of the defendants was carried out by investigators, operatives of the police department No. 3 of the Vinnytsia regional department together with employees of the Criminal Investigation Department and other operational services with the power support of the special unit of the KORD, under the procedural guidance of the Vinnytsia District Prosecutor's Office.
Now a number of episodes have been documented and activities are continuing to identify all the victims.
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