Europol in a coordinated effort of its services European Cybercrime Center (EC3) and Eurojust, took down a large group of fraudsters operating in several countries της Ευρώπης, προκαλώντας οικονομικές απώλειες σε διάφορες εταιρείες που υπολογίζονται γύρω στα 6 millions euro.
In total, 49 was arrested for malware malware 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, scammers with their messages tricked the customer into depositing the payment into a bank account. account which was 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 complicated money laundering system, essentially transferring funds through multiple accounts outside the European Union so that authorities lose track of their.
Police raided 58 homes to look for more evidence of illegal activity, and seized electronic devices (laptops, hard drives, phones, tablets, USB drives), credit cards, SIM cards, forged documents and bank account documents.
