The Brest prosecutor's office supported in court the state prosecution in a criminal case against an illegal trader for large-scale fraud, the information service of the regional prosecutor's office told BELTA.
The crime was committed in September 2021. At that time, the defendant was 17 years old. In search of income, a young man responded to an ad that he found in an Internet messenger. He was included in a closed group and the work procedure was explained. Through a fictitious account, he was supposed to communicate with people and persuade them to trade in the cryptocurrency field.
The defendant managed to convince the 41-year-old victim to perform such an operation. After failures in this business, he transferred access to his account to curators. As a result, the accused transferred funds in the amount of more than Br9 thousand to various bank cards, including banks in Russia and Ukraine.
Taking into account the evidence presented by the state prosecutor, on the basis of Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code, the court of the Moskovsky District of Brest sentenced the defendant to a sentence of restriction of freedom for a period of 3 years without being sent to an open correctional facility. The verdict has not entered into legal force and can be appealed and appealed.
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A 48-year-old man from Soligorsk trusted scammers and invested Br68 thousand in a non-existent organization. When he realized that he had become a victim of deception, he contacted the police, but never returned the money. BELTA was informed about this by the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee.
At the end of October 2023, a resident of Soligorsk decided to increase his income through investment. The man installed a special application on his smartphone, and at first he was pleased with the numbers and graphs that the attackers “drew” especially for him.
The realization that funds were simply being siphoned out of him came too late to the Soligorsk resident: first, under the pretext of receiving income from investments in a non-existent organization, and then for providing services for withdrawing funds, the man was defrauded of Br68 thousand in a month and a half.
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A Belarusian truck driver, while on a flight outside of Belarus, believed the unknown caller. The driver, on the advice of a stranger, allegedly to prevent scammers from deceiving people, installed a malicious application on his smartphone, allowing the scammers to steal about Br10 thousand from him. BelTA was told about this by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The truck driver, a 35-year-old resident of Uzda, answered a call from an unknown number in the messenger. The caller introduced himself as an employee of a cellular operator company. He said that the attackers installed call forwarding on the man’s phone and are using his data: calling people and fraudulently obtaining loans.
Then the man was allegedly connected with representatives of the bank and law enforcement agencies. The interlocutors advised that in order to fix everything, you need to install a certain application on your smartphone. He complied with the conditions, thus providing the scammers with remote access to their own data. As a result, about Br10 thousand was written off from the victim’s bank card in two stages.
Returning to Belarus, the man contacted the police. Investigators opened a criminal case for theft by modifying computer information.
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A resident of Ushachi believed the scammers and lost more than $20 thousand of hers and her daughter’s family’s savings. A BELTA correspondent was informed about this by the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.
The victim of the attackers was a 58-year-old woman. She contacted the police with a statement about the theft of a large sum by unknown persons. Earlier, a resident of an urban village received a call via instant messenger from a person who introduced himself as a police officer. The interlocutor confirmed his words with a photograph of what was supposedly his official ID.
The man said: scammers used the pensioner’s personal data and issued a loan in her name, the funds from which they plan to transfer abroad. Further, the fake bank employee also took part in the conversation. He recommended that the details of the “special operation” not be disclosed. According to him, after the criminal is detained, a search will be carried out in the interlocutor’s house, where all the cash will be found. The woman followed the advice to transfer them to a bank account, where all the money she took from the safe, as well as the money accumulated by her daughter’s family, ended up. The amount exceeded $20 thousand.
Later, on the instructions of the scammers, the victim installed a mobile application to remotely control the gadget. As a result, the attackers stole all the money, gaining access to her account.
Investigators opened a criminal case regarding the theft of property by modifying computer information, committed on an especially large scale.
The crime was committed in September 2021. At that time, the defendant was 17 years old. In search of income, a young man responded to an ad that he found in an Internet messenger. He was included in a closed group and the work procedure was explained. Through a fictitious account, he was supposed to communicate with people and persuade them to trade in the cryptocurrency field.
The defendant managed to convince the 41-year-old victim to perform such an operation. After failures in this business, he transferred access to his account to curators. As a result, the accused transferred funds in the amount of more than Br9 thousand to various bank cards, including banks in Russia and Ukraine.
Taking into account the evidence presented by the state prosecutor, on the basis of Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code, the court of the Moskovsky District of Brest sentenced the defendant to a sentence of restriction of freedom for a period of 3 years without being sent to an open correctional facility. The verdict has not entered into legal force and can be appealed and appealed.
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A 48-year-old man from Soligorsk trusted scammers and invested Br68 thousand in a non-existent organization. When he realized that he had become a victim of deception, he contacted the police, but never returned the money. BELTA was informed about this by the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee.
At the end of October 2023, a resident of Soligorsk decided to increase his income through investment. The man installed a special application on his smartphone, and at first he was pleased with the numbers and graphs that the attackers “drew” especially for him.
The realization that funds were simply being siphoned out of him came too late to the Soligorsk resident: first, under the pretext of receiving income from investments in a non-existent organization, and then for providing services for withdrawing funds, the man was defrauded of Br68 thousand in a month and a half.
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A Belarusian truck driver, while on a flight outside of Belarus, believed the unknown caller. The driver, on the advice of a stranger, allegedly to prevent scammers from deceiving people, installed a malicious application on his smartphone, allowing the scammers to steal about Br10 thousand from him. BelTA was told about this by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The truck driver, a 35-year-old resident of Uzda, answered a call from an unknown number in the messenger. The caller introduced himself as an employee of a cellular operator company. He said that the attackers installed call forwarding on the man’s phone and are using his data: calling people and fraudulently obtaining loans.
Then the man was allegedly connected with representatives of the bank and law enforcement agencies. The interlocutors advised that in order to fix everything, you need to install a certain application on your smartphone. He complied with the conditions, thus providing the scammers with remote access to their own data. As a result, about Br10 thousand was written off from the victim’s bank card in two stages.
Returning to Belarus, the man contacted the police. Investigators opened a criminal case for theft by modifying computer information.
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A resident of Ushachi believed the scammers and lost more than $20 thousand of hers and her daughter’s family’s savings. A BELTA correspondent was informed about this by the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.
The victim of the attackers was a 58-year-old woman. She contacted the police with a statement about the theft of a large sum by unknown persons. Earlier, a resident of an urban village received a call via instant messenger from a person who introduced himself as a police officer. The interlocutor confirmed his words with a photograph of what was supposedly his official ID.
The man said: scammers used the pensioner’s personal data and issued a loan in her name, the funds from which they plan to transfer abroad. Further, the fake bank employee also took part in the conversation. He recommended that the details of the “special operation” not be disclosed. According to him, after the criminal is detained, a search will be carried out in the interlocutor’s house, where all the cash will be found. The woman followed the advice to transfer them to a bank account, where all the money she took from the safe, as well as the money accumulated by her daughter’s family, ended up. The amount exceeded $20 thousand.
Later, on the instructions of the scammers, the victim installed a mobile application to remotely control the gadget. As a result, the attackers stole all the money, gaining access to her account.
Investigators opened a criminal case regarding the theft of property by modifying computer information, committed on an especially large scale.
