In Belarus, the police for the day suspended spending operations on 40 accounts after reports of calls scammers

Over the past day, the police received more than 100 reports of phone calls scammers. Thanks to the efficiency of internal affairs officers and the vigilance of citizens, the vast majority of atrocities were prevented. This was reported in the interior Ministry, writes sb.by.

Seven crimes involving the use of information and communication technologies were recorded.

The department of the organization of processing fraudulent transactions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs blocked the possibility of payments to 20 foreign payment details used by attackers, suspended spending operations on 40 accounts. The operatives detained a courier who worked in the interests of scammers.

According to the method of committing illegal acts, the purchase of goods on the Internet is leading. Then there are viching on behalf of officials (telephone scams), trading on financial exchanges and renting housing.

Work to identify and combat fraudulent activities continues.

Interior Ministry: the courier of telephone fraudsters with 60 thousand was detained.