He’s only 27 years old but National Police finds him dangerous “hacker” computer fraud network that made a profit of around three million euros after deceiving more than a thousand victims. This young man was arrested Altea Among the 34 people detained Madrid, Malaga, Huelva, Murcia and Alicante As this newspaper has previously published, it is the story of a criminal group that has data on four million people and carries out various types of fraud over the Internet. Police listed him as one of the main and most dangerous suspects of the busted network, but he did not go to jail like other leaders of the network. The young man, who was the only person detained in the Alicante province, was recently brought to justice. Benidorm and after getting help lawyer Aitor Esteban Gallastegui went out He was released after paying bail of 8,000 euros.
Investigators confirmed that the young man was responsible for providing other members of the network with the necessary data to launch large-scale scams against victims across the country and received large sums of cryptocurrency after the scams were completed.
According to police, this inmate was not only trained to commit major frauds at a high level, but also allegedly provided other criminals with more intuitive databases and computer tools to enable them to commit similar frauds.
young man already has been arrested 25 times before inside Elche, Crevillent and Aspe for fraud, robbery, injury, maltreatment and complicity.
The organization to which this hacker detained in Alicante allegedly belongs is being investigated for massive fraud against financial institutions, but is dedicated to committing all kinds of computer fraud: “phishing”, “phishing”, “phishing”, “His son is in trouble” scam manipulation of delivery notes by tech companies and campaigns where they pose as employees of electricity supply companies.
Monetary
Last February, police were alerted by the financier of a well-known hypermarket chain who found them defrauding their customers. Fraudsters accessed customer data They asked for a loan in your name. The money was deposited into the customers’ accounts, but the next day they called them, pretending to be employees of the hypermarket’s finance company, and informed them that they had deposited some money by mistake and that they needed to return it to the bank account provided to them. them, and logically it was controlled by a network of fraudsters. They succeeded with this system He defrauded 91 people of more than 160,000 euros.
They used the same “mode of operation” for a finance company dedicated to fast lending. Here The number of those affected is around 900 and the amount of money defrauded almost 300,000 euros.
A third fraud carried out by the conspiracy involves criminals pretending to be employees of electricity companies and calling accommodation establishments and They threatened to cut off their electricity If they did not transfer money immediately due to a false claim that an invoice was not paid. Eleven victims fell into the trap and sent more than €33,000 to members of the busted network.
bank fraud
Fraudsters also conducted “phishing” and “smishing” campaigns by impersonating banking institutions. They shipped large quantities SMS alert regarding security breach It hacked into victims’ bank accounts, urging them to click on a link that directed them to their bank’s fraudulent website, where they obtained the information necessary to loot their money. With this scam, the network defrauded just over 101,000 euros. 58 victims.
with what’s popular son in danger fraudThey defrauded 24 victims of approximately 34 thousand euros by sending SMS asking for money from parents, using the excuse that they had lost their mobile phones and had an urgent problem.
Another organization dedicated to lending also suffered losses of around 95,000 euros in just over a month, but the biggest fraud perpetrated by the organization was an individual. multinational electronic products company. One of those detained is a former employee of this company and they were confiscated. technological material worth almost two million euros. Computer and electronic materials were routed from suppliers to the organization without going through the multinational company that purchased them.