The current online accounts were emptying. Many arrests, but thousands of Italians affected. Very serious case never happened

Thousands of current accounts exhausted, with as many thousands of Italian citizens involved and victims in spite of themselves. A fraud designed down to the smallest detail and which managed to strike up the intervention of the Forces of the Order with many arrests.

A true criminal badociation with one goal: to empty the online accounts of the greatest number of people. And considering the thousands of users trapped in the fraud that a group of 40 people would be able to bear, it is there that the target was reached. But that could not last forever, and in fact, the postal police, coordinated by the district attorney of Catania, thought of getting on the trail of cyber crooks and writing the end of the story. The budget is clear: 14 people arrested, three in prison and 11 at home, and 32 others in various capacities: criminal badociation, fraud and illegal access to computer systems, in-person substitution, fraud and money laundering. money.

Sgominata banda 40 people

The degree of sophistication reached by this so-called gang dedicated to financial cybercrime that has hit thousands of people in Italy is surprising. The reference technique was that of the Sim Swap. There are four phases:

1. we find a victim
2. we proceed to the acquisition of data and justifications to access the bank on the Internet by hacking techniques
3. we get a sim card to his name using falsified documents [19659006] activates online banking service on behalf of the unfortunate

If the four steps were successful, the scammers had a free way to withdraw money from the account because that the bank alerts arrive on the sim installed in the crooks' mobile phone. Regardless of the fact that once they entered the bank's computer system, they could do anything, such as reset access credentials, order wire transfers, and phone recharges until the victim receives the extract from the bank account and from there, he noticed that something was wrong. According to the postal police, in the footsteps of criminals for at least three years or following the first computer fraud against an online bank, it is a group "characterized by considerable criminal skills and special technical know-how, dedicated with professionalism and openness the ongoing planning of online frauds and telematics and online scams on known portals ".

The polls then revealed that some components would also be active in the commission of a series of online scams through fake sales ads on specialized portals. And also in this case with some success in the action and in deceived people.

And another method to enter the current account

Still victim of Iban fraud, this time he arrived in the Viterbo area to Andrea, a car dealership. But it is unfortunately one of the many scams that continue to increase as indicated by the most recent data on this type of fraud.

Andrea gets a car dealership and one afternoon, a customer with whom he was negotiating a car, he writes an email to confirm the payment of a vehicle. And so on to the bank transfer. But the next day, the lady calls him saying that he has not received the money and the unfortunate discovers that the Iban was not that of a store of cars in Milan, but a particular. In the separate had also included the name, but what matters is the Iban

Andrea has become, unfortunately, one of the victims of the Iban scam, with a virus, or rather a Trojan who enters the e-mail and changes all registered ibans, for example those of customers or suppliers.

In fact, Andrea files a complaint with the police station and, fortunately, after about 30 days, the postal police can rebuild the story and recover the money, but as Andrea explains always, the same policemen explained to him that he was very lucky, because usually the money is withdrawn by a nominee on which they are put on their account, which then sends them abroad . And even if it is found, it is declared and is therefore, concretely, nullatenente.

Apparently, the credentials to enter his computer and then into his email, among other things, were not "taken" by a virus sent by e-mail, but after having successfully get stuck in the Wifi network of his car shop and have put a Trojan on the PC on the pc to enter the program e-mail and change the Iban