The Belarusian police received more than 100 applications for calls scammers

Over the past day, the Belarusian police received more than 100 applications about phone scams. Thanks to the efficiency of law enforcement officers and the vigilance of citizens, the vast majority of atrocities were prevented, the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti agency reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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Employees of the department of fraud processing blocked the possibility of payments to seven foreign details used by the attackers. In addition, operatives detained a courier who worked in the interests of scammers. He had 60,000 BYN seized.

However, nine crimes involving the use of information and communication technologies were recorded.

According to the method of committing illegal acts, the most common vishing on behalf of officials (telephone fraud) and theft using social networks. Then there are schemes related to trading on financial exchanges and buying goods online.