Europol arrests 49 suspects for 6 million euro fraud in Europe

Europol, in a coordinated effort by the services of the European Cybercrime Center (EC3) and Eurojust, defeated a large group of fraudsters operating in several of Europe, causing financial losses to various companies estimated at around 6 million euros.

Europol arrested 49 susspects for cyber fraud

A total of 49 suspects were arrested for criminal activities carried out through a malicious and targeted large and medium-sized businesses in Italy, Spain, Poland, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Georgia.

Scammers spied on email communications and diverted money to their own accounts.

The group acted as follows:

It first obtained and illegally accessed the victims' e-mail accounts, thus monitoring communications concerning the targeted company's payment requests to its customers.

When such e-mails appeared, messengers cheated on the customer to testify the payment to a bank account controlled by them.

"These payments were redeemed by the fraudsters immediately" she said Europol  on Wednesday, in a related announcement.

Most of the suspects arrested are from Nigeria, Cameroon and Spain and used a very complex scheme to launder the money, essentially moving the funds through multiple accounts outside the country. Union so that the authorities lose their tracks.

Η raided 58 homes to look for more evidence of illegal activity, and seized (laptops, hard drives, phones, tablets, USB drives), credit cards, SIM cards, forged documents and bank account documents.

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