Internet scams on bank accounts 14 handcuffs, thousands of victims

It's just a SIM card problem. As soon as I have a moment, I will go to the service center to solve the problem. In the first place, they thought of many scammed by an organized group dedicated to the perpetration of computer fraud aggravated by the undue use of other digital identity, money laundering and fraud. But the victims, thousands, soon realized that someone had dried up the bank account. The proceeds of illicit gains made by a criminal badociation operating in the Ionian region, including the municipalities of Giarre, Riposto, Fiumefreddo di Sicilia and the neighboring municipalities, were estimated at more than 600 thousand euros during the investigation period launched in 2015 by the postal police. communications at Etna, which benefited from the badistance of specialists in combating the phenomenon of financial cybercrime of the Postal Police Services of Messina, Palermo and Reggio Calabria. The investigation, available to the prosecutor of Catania, left after a computer fraud against an online bank whose customers, residing in various parts of Italy, had been subtracted 300 thousand euros.

In 14 are handcuffed finishes at dawn yesterday, there are 32 free investigators and computer equipment was seized that will be submitted to Polposta's badysis. The members of the badociation, with their technical know-how, were real professionals of the fraud. It has not been spared by the ongoing planning of new cyber and telematics frauds and online scams on known portals. The preferred field for operating was the fraud "Sim swap", an advanced type of computer fraud that gave its name to the Polposta di Catania operation

Here's what happened: Stealing the data designated victim's personal, telephone number, current account credentials home banking credentials by hacking techniques, that is to say social engineering, using a fake document d 39; Identity registered to the victim, a scammer went to a dealer requesting the replacement of the sim victim. The SIM card has been deactivated and replaced by a fraudulently activated card.

The victim detected that the SIM card was not working, but did not immediately badociate the event with a fraud. At this point, the criminal entered the computer system of the bank where the victim had the checking account and reset the credentials with a call to customer support, posing as the account holder and answering questions of security. Once logged in, the victim's money was making transfers and / or refills of prepaid cards to other accounts and / or prepaid cards in the availability of the badociation. The group also cheated by inserting fake online sales ads and, once payment was received, it did not send the goods and became untraceable.