Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine neutralized the activities of an interregional group that stole money from citizens' bank accounts. This was reported in the SBU press center.
According to operational data, the attackers' daily "profit" was up to a million hryvnias. The illegal scheme was organized by four residents of the Zaporozhye region and the Dnipro region. To do this, the dealers set up an underground call center in Melitopol, where almost 50 operators "worked". Before the perpetrators were exposed by operatives of the special service, they managed to "work" for several months.
Posing as bank employees, staff called financial institution clients and asked them for CVV codes, numbers and PIN codes of payment cards. After gaining access to client accounts, criminals transferred funds to controlled bank accounts.
To "work" with foreign clients, dealers also used illegal routing of international telephone traffic.
During the search of the premises of the call center, SBU officers found: computer equipment with malicious software; equipment for IP telephony; instructions for employees with step-by-step actions during communication with "clients"; mobile phones, draft records and other evidence of illegal activity.
Criminal proceedings are open under Part 1 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Fraud). Law enforcement officers are continuing the investigation - they are identifying all the persons involved in the scheme and the affected citizens.
