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The security service of Ukraine stopped the functioning of a number of fraudulent call centers in Kiev, whose employees lured out personal data and passwords for bank cards from citizens. According to the SBU press center, monthly attackers stole up to $ 100 thousand from the accounts of clients of domestic and foreign banking institutions.
According to the investigation, last year the underground network was organized by a native of the South Caucasus and a Kiev resident, a former law enforcement officer. For illegal activities, businessmen rented 5 office premises and an apartment in the center of the capital. They hired 300 employees to work in call centers - students of local universities and the unemployed.
“Introducing themselves as bank employees, the“ operators ”lured out of citizens personal data and passwords to bank cards. Then clients' funds were transferred to dummy accounts and appropriated, ”the message says.
According to the report, today law enforcement officers conducted 10 simultaneous searches in the premises of illegal call centers, as well as at the place of residence of the participants in the transaction in Kiev and Dnipro.
During the investigation, high-tech equipment and software were seized, through which the attackers changed the phone numbers of banking institutions, special equipment and malicious software for hacking Internet networks, client databases, more than 300 computers that were used for illegal activities.
The issue of reporting the suspicion to the organizers and participants of fraudulent call-centers under Part 2 of Art. 200 (illegal actions with transfer documents, payment cards and other means of access to bank accounts, electronic money, equipment for their production) and h. 3 Article. 190 (fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Investigative actions continue. The equipment seized during the searches was sent for examination to identify all the injured persons and establish the exact amount of losses.
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According to the investigation, last year the underground network was organized by a native of the South Caucasus and a Kiev resident, a former law enforcement officer. For illegal activities, businessmen rented 5 office premises and an apartment in the center of the capital. They hired 300 employees to work in call centers - students of local universities and the unemployed.
“Introducing themselves as bank employees, the“ operators ”lured out of citizens personal data and passwords to bank cards. Then clients' funds were transferred to dummy accounts and appropriated, ”the message says.
According to the report, today law enforcement officers conducted 10 simultaneous searches in the premises of illegal call centers, as well as at the place of residence of the participants in the transaction in Kiev and Dnipro.
During the investigation, high-tech equipment and software were seized, through which the attackers changed the phone numbers of banking institutions, special equipment and malicious software for hacking Internet networks, client databases, more than 300 computers that were used for illegal activities.
The issue of reporting the suspicion to the organizers and participants of fraudulent call-centers under Part 2 of Art. 200 (illegal actions with transfer documents, payment cards and other means of access to bank accounts, electronic money, equipment for their production) and h. 3 Article. 190 (fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Investigative actions continue. The equipment seized during the searches was sent for examination to identify all the injured persons and establish the exact amount of losses.
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