Russian arrested for creating South Korea’s largest fraudulent network

The Russian was detained in South Korea on suspicion of organizing the country’s largest network of telephone fraudsters. Calculate the attacker helped sewer clog. This is reported by the Telegram channel Mash.

The leader of the group was detained in Busan. Along with him are almost 100 accomplices, mostly Russian-speaking migrants and students recruited through messengers. The organization stole 1.5 billion won (about $1.1 million) from the victims.

According to the investigation, the 20-year-old suspect built an extensive structure with recruiters, operators and couriers, and also established ties with Chinese crime. The group imported into South Korea sim boxes – devices for mass sending of SMS and fraudulent calls. At customs, equipment was masked under hard drives and household appliances, and local SIM cards were purchased from citizens of the country - police detained 84 South Koreans who issued cards for themselves.

The network was opened thanks to sewage. SIM cards lit up by the police were cut and flushed into the toilet, but there was so much plastic that they clogged the pipe in a multi-storey Busan house. After clearing the blockage, law enforcement officers examined the recovered cards and went to the criminal network.

Earlier, Cambodia extradited two Russians wanted for fraud to Russia.

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