Broken up an organized network of Internet9
Broken up an organized network of Internet banking scam by the method 'Phishing'.
The operation has resulted in the arrest of five people in Valencia with the seven arrested in 2008 during operation 'Electron' formed the criminal organization. Is estimated to have been able to defraud an amount of approximately EUR 2.5 million.
In August 2007 it received a complaint from a neighbor in San Adrian that warned of a series of movements made with fraudulent credit card for an amount over 400 euros.
On suspicion of several counts of fraud and money laundering, were arrested MRL man of 35 years of age; JMMR wife of 55 years of age, MMR, a man of 27 years of age, FBH, male, 31 years old and FHP, a man of 33 years of age. All of them are natives of neighboring Navarra and Valencia.
Among the five arrested was the main cooperative bank scam, who lived between the years 2006 and 2009 in Colombia next to the main investigation in 2008, committed the country from which most of the offense under investigation.
Therefore, the Guardia Civil de Navarra began operations 'Electron', which resulted in the arrest of seven people who were a criminal network, speaking various computers and computer media, containing plenty of information.
Derived from the analysis of this information, which contained personal bank details of approximately 15,000 victims, as well as bank information on persons engaged in laundering of funds obtained from the scams, was initiated in April this year the new research called "New Electron".
Modus operandi
The members of this network used several methods to achieve their goals, foremost of counterfeit credit cards with data obtained by the 'Phishing'.
The detainees, after getting email addresses of the victims, their mass mailing, using cloned web pages of banks made up by one of the detainees with computer programs.
Simulating belong to these entities, we requested by post 'Spam' (mass sending of emails) their personal and banking data, which were provided in the webs woven by the alleged perpetrators.
Once known the passwords and bank accounts, accessible through electronic banking to bank accounts, withdrawing money or making unauthorized charges to virtual cards created with the data obtained.
Another way to get data from the victims, was to gain confidential information through contacts of Russian nationality, with which they communicate via instant messaging, buying 'lots' of data to clone the virtual cards.
With the capital raised from scams, place bets on virtual casinos or other businesses like that in a short space of time to pay back on the money in other bank accounts which in turn make transfers to their final destination, so the money whitening.