OP 17 December, 2024 - 06:31 AM
Spanish special services have eliminated an international criminal group in the kingdom. According to the investigation, the attackers committed acts of fraud for a total of three million euros.
Officers of the National Police destroyed the entire infrastructure of the gang. The criminals made calls imitating the voices of Spanish bank employees. As a result, the scammers deceived over ten thousand people.
In a large-scale police operation, 83 people were arrested, 35 of whom were caught in several Spanish cities (Madrid, Vigo, Barcelona, Mallorca and Salamanca), and another 48 people were detained in Peru.
There, the criminals operated a fraudulent scheme of three call centers, where 50 employees called victims on behalf of allegedly banks and lured their personal data in order to subsequently steal money.
They made more than a thousand such calls a day and persuaded victims to give them the code from the SMS messages received. The scammers extorted from each person from 100 to 200 euros. Law enforcement agencies added that then the attackers withdrew and laundered the stolen money.
The operation included 29 simultaneous searches in two countries. The police confiscated money, mobile phones, computers and documents.
Earlier it became known that in Spain the number of facts of fraud with transfers through the Bizum application is growing rapidly. Guardia Civil said that the "reverse Bizum" scheme is most often observed on buying and selling platforms. So, the buyer is allegedly interested in the product and insists on paying through Bizum.
• Source: Cae una red que estafó 3 millones con 'vishing': 83 detenidos y 10.000 víctimas de fraude telefónico
Officers of the National Police destroyed the entire infrastructure of the gang. The criminals made calls imitating the voices of Spanish bank employees. As a result, the scammers deceived over ten thousand people.
In a large-scale police operation, 83 people were arrested, 35 of whom were caught in several Spanish cities (Madrid, Vigo, Barcelona, Mallorca and Salamanca), and another 48 people were detained in Peru.
There, the criminals operated a fraudulent scheme of three call centers, where 50 employees called victims on behalf of allegedly banks and lured their personal data in order to subsequently steal money.
They made more than a thousand such calls a day and persuaded victims to give them the code from the SMS messages received. The scammers extorted from each person from 100 to 200 euros. Law enforcement agencies added that then the attackers withdrew and laundered the stolen money.
The operation included 29 simultaneous searches in two countries. The police confiscated money, mobile phones, computers and documents.
Earlier it became known that in Spain the number of facts of fraud with transfers through the Bizum application is growing rapidly. Guardia Civil said that the "reverse Bizum" scheme is most often observed on buying and selling platforms. So, the buyer is allegedly interested in the product and insists on paying through Bizum.
• Source: Cae una red que estafó 3 millones con 'vishing': 83 detenidos y 10.000 víctimas de fraude telefónico