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The damage from the actions of criminals exceeds 2 million rubles.
Employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region stopped the activities of fraudsters who specialized in stealing money from citizens from bank cards under the guise of bank security officers.
The fraudulent scheme consisted in the following: criminals called citizens from numbers with the prefix +495 and +499, presented themselves as bank employees and forced people to transfer funds. The fraudsters transferred the stolen money to cards issued for dummies in various regions of the Russian Federation, and then cashed them in ATMs. Further, this money was deposited into the settlement accounts of criminals in St. Petersburg, on which the attackers bought bitcoins, which were transferred to operators in a neighboring state.
In order to disguise the criminal activity as legal, the fraudsters organized an exchange office for transferring funds into cryptocurrency, which was managed through the website. For money transactions, the attackers used an office in a business center on the Moika Embankment in St. Petersburg. Organizers and coordinators of this underground office have been identified, as well as operators who worked in shifts.
At least 15 citizens of the Russian Federation suffered from the actions of the intruders, the amount of damage exceeding 2 million rubles.
At the moment, 10 members of the criminal group have been identified. Seven of them were detained in Yalta, Kaliningrad, Ulan-Ude, Khabarovsk and St. Petersburg. A criminal case was initiated under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud”.
Employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region stopped the activities of fraudsters who specialized in stealing money from citizens from bank cards under the guise of bank security officers.
The fraudulent scheme consisted in the following: criminals called citizens from numbers with the prefix +495 and +499, presented themselves as bank employees and forced people to transfer funds. The fraudsters transferred the stolen money to cards issued for dummies in various regions of the Russian Federation, and then cashed them in ATMs. Further, this money was deposited into the settlement accounts of criminals in St. Petersburg, on which the attackers bought bitcoins, which were transferred to operators in a neighboring state.
In order to disguise the criminal activity as legal, the fraudsters organized an exchange office for transferring funds into cryptocurrency, which was managed through the website. For money transactions, the attackers used an office in a business center on the Moika Embankment in St. Petersburg. Organizers and coordinators of this underground office have been identified, as well as operators who worked in shifts.
At least 15 citizens of the Russian Federation suffered from the actions of the intruders, the amount of damage exceeding 2 million rubles.
At the moment, 10 members of the criminal group have been identified. Seven of them were detained in Yalta, Kaliningrad, Ulan-Ude, Khabarovsk and St. Petersburg. A criminal case was initiated under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud”.