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Employees of the Department for organizing the fight against illegal use of information and communication technologies of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region detained a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of committing a crime related to unlawful access to computer information.

“It was previously established that the young man provided technical support for the activities of fraudulent call centers. All instructions and instructions came to him from curators located on the territory of Ukraine.

According to available data, the suspect found a vacancy for a specialist in this profile with a monthly remuneration in cryptocurrency in the shadow segment of the Internet. A prerequisite was the presence of technical skills to maintain the functioning of the equipment, which ensured the substitution of numbers when calling citizens of the Russian Federation from Ukrainian call centers. In other words, the scammers called from the territory of a neighboring state, and the victims saw the numbers of Russian operators on the screens of their mobile phones.

In the city on the Neva, the suspect rented a one-room apartment, where the organizers of the illegal activities, using a courier service, delivered the appropriate equipment: four GSM gateways, two thousand SIM cards, as well as a laptop with software that allows making calls via the Internet.

For the purpose of secrecy, the young man changed rented apartments every week, and also replaced SIM cards in SIM bank slots at least once a day.

As a result of further operational-search activities, the police traced two more accomplices, who also served as system administrators and worked under similar conditions.

In addition, the eldest of them received about three thousand SIM cards from Moscow every week, which he distributed among his accomplices.

Several criminal cases have been initiated, which are currently combined into one proceeding. The defendants are charged with committing crimes under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. He chose a preventive measure in the form of detention. The preliminary investigation continues, all participants in the criminal scheme are being identified,” said official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk.


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