Interior Ministry: arrested the accomplice of fraudsters with almost 200 thousand stolen money
Employees on countering cybercrime of the Gomel region stopped the criminal activities of a 19-year-old citizen of a neighboring state who arrived in the city.
Cybercrime officers of the Gomel region stopped the criminal activities of a 19-year-old citizen of a neighboring state who arrived in Belarus specifically to assist fraudsters. This was reported in the interior Ministry, writes sb.by.
- It is established: the defendant, on the instructions of the curator, collected bank cards issued for drops (fake persons), cashed money stolen from citizens through ATMs and transferred it to the organizer through bookmarks. To get on his trail managed after appealing to the police 59-year-old resident of Yelsk. The victim received a call allegedly from FSZN employees. Under the pretext of recalculating the work experience, they convinced a man to install a remote access application on his smartphone. After fulfilling the instructions, all savings were lost from his account. In a similar scheme, two more residents of Minsk and Vitebsk regions were deceived. The total amount of stolen money exceeded 180 thousand rubles, — gave details of the Deputy head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Gomel region Vadim Borsuk.
Investigators opened a criminal case for theft by modifying computer information. Now the detainee faces up to 12 years in prison. In Minsk detained two foreign couriers scammers who transported stolen from Belarusians money in hiding
Belarusian law enforcement officers for the day suspended operations on 57 accounts in the fight against fraudsters
In Mogilev 11-year-old schoolboy gave the courier scammers $ 7.5 thousand of parental savings
