Cyber police have exposed an international group that robbed residents of European countries of hundreds of thousands of euros.
The criminals’ activities were aimed at countries of the European Union, reports National Police of Ukraine. Call centers with a “staff” of several hundred people were created in Ukraine and Georgia. The scammers selected operators with knowledge of foreign languages, then trained them to convince citizens to make significant investments.
Since 2019, criminals have created at least 100 web resources where they offered gullible investors to receive excess profits from investing in cryptocurrency. The main victims were mainly investors from Germany and Switzerland, tells Ukrainian edition “Economic Truth”. Fraudsters gained remote access to victims’ computers and transferred their savings to controlled accounts.
Mass searches were carried out on the territory of Georgia and Ukraine as part of a joint investigation by law enforcement agencies of the Swiss Confederation and Ukraine. At the same time, the assets of the organizers of the criminal group were frozen in more than 20 EU countries.
Investigative actions are ongoing to identify all victims, accomplices of the defendants and the final amount of damage caused.
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