The cyber police exposed a criminal group that embezzled more than 2 million hryvnias with the help of phishing

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Criminals used phishing links to obtain bank card data of citizens and later appropriated money from their accounts. Law enforcement announced suspicions against the six involved, they may face up to 12 years in prison, the Cyber ​​police of Ukraine.

The members of the so-called "scam community" were exposed by the employees of the Kharkiv Oblast Cybercrime Countermeasures Department together with the investigative department of the Kharkiv Oblast Police Headquarters.

The organizer, a 23-year-old citizen of Ukraine, involved eight more citizens in illegal activities. The man created a site and community on the Telegram messenger, which provided instructions and phishing links for participants in the fraudulent scheme. 
Then, the attackers sent phishing links to the sellers of the goods they were looking for on the classifieds sites. People were assured that they were sending a link to order a delivery service, and were asked to enter their card details, allegedly to receive money for the sold goods. Data entered on fraudulent resources automatically became known to those involved. 

The organizer of the scheme compromised the cards of the bank's customers and "withdrawn" the victims' money to controlled accounts using payment systems. 

The number of victims of the illegal activity of the participants is established. According to preliminary information, the amount of damages may exceed two million hryvnias - these data will be established during the pre-trial investigation.

Law enforcement officers searched the places of residence of the accused. Computer equipment, telephones, "draft" records, bank cards and SIM cards were seized.

Criminal proceedings have been opened under Part 4 of Art. 190 (Fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Six members of the organized group were charged with suspicion. The extras face up to twelve years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.

Procedural management is carried out by prosecutors of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office.

After conducting examinations, the issue of announcing suspicions to other members of the group will be resolved.

Security services employees of Universal Bank of the MonoBank project, PrivatBank and Oschadbank contributed to the detection of the perpetrators.

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