“In Dnipro, law enforcement officers eliminated a network of fraudulent call centers that masqueraded as financial services and robbed citizens. This is reported by the General Prosecutor’s Office. The prosecutors of the Dnipro Left Bank District Prosecutor’s Office established that the members of the network presented themselves as employees of the security service of banks and convinced citizens to install an allegedly “protective” mobile application. After its installation, the attackers gained access to the online banking of the victims, transferred funds to”, — write on: ua.news
In Dnipro, law enforcement officers eliminated a network of fraudulent call centers that masqueraded as financial services and robbed citizens.
This is reported by the General Prosecutor’s Office.
The prosecutors of the Dnipro Left Bank District Prosecutor’s Office established that the members of the network presented themselves as employees of the security service of banks and convinced citizens to install an allegedly “protective” mobile application. After its installation, the attackers gained access to the online banking of the victims, transferred funds to bogus accounts and withdrew them through trusted persons.
During the searches, law enforcement officers seized more than 150 pieces of equipment, SIM cards, drafts, money, as well as an object similar to a machine gun and cartridges, which have been sent for examination. According to preliminary data, up to 90 people worked in call centers.
An investigation is currently underway (fraud committed on a large scale or through illegal transactions using electronic computing equipment). The sanction of the article provides imprisonment from three to eight years.
We will remind you that in recent months alone, 277 call centers in Kyiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Rivne, Lviv, Poltava, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy and Odesa have been suspended.
Recently, law enforcement officers stopped activities of 14 fraudulent call centers that operated in Kyiv, as well as in the Zaporizhzhia, Rivne, and Cherkasy regions.
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