Dismantled an international network that committed banking scams in a massive way through 'phishing'

The Civil Guard, within the framework of the

, has dismantled in Alicante a network dedicated to committing bank scams at an international level and in a massive way through the method of

, in its form of

. That is, they

, in order to be able to launder it without leaving a trace. Eight people have been arrested for the alleged crimes of fraud, forgery of identity documents, money laundering and constitution of a criminal organization.

The operation, which is still open and no further arrests are ruled out, began in April 2020 after the perpetrators carried out, for three consecutive days, a

through

to the mobile phones of the injured. They managed to defraud 600,000 euros from a total of 106 injured throughout the national territory, as reported by the Civil Guard.

The gang collected the data necessary to access the accounts of the injured by sending a

.

Once the injured parties bite, the authors took control of their accounts from the entity's online platform, and modified the form of access.

The injured parties are all clients of the same bank, with national headquarters.

After having control of the accounts, they made massive transfers of about 5,000 euros each, from those of the injured to accounts of

, registered with online financial companies.

These people transfer money of illegal origin received into their account, and in return they receive a commission.

The investigators located up to 28 of these mules, verifying that 462,000 euros of the total money cheated were passed through their accounts to the injured.

The remaining 128,000 euros were scammed with the same methodology to different businesses in Paris.

Investing in cryptocurrencies

After transferring the money to the mules' accounts, the detainees invested it in the acquisition of virtual currencies or cryptocurrencies, thus managing, in addition to laundering the black money, to evade tracking by the investigators.

It must be borne in mind that the main characteristic of the cryptocurrency is that the source and destination data are encrypted, making it very difficult to track them. Once the virtual currencies were acquired, they were transferred to the accounts of members of the main members of the gang, who thus managed to remain anonymous.

The agents have been able to identify a complex

. In Spain, eight people, between 40 and 59 years old and of Spanish, Romanian and Ukrainian nationalities, have been arrested in the towns of Malaga, Seville, Murcia, La Coruña, Zaragoza, Gerona, Valencia and Elche. In addition, a total of 25 bank accounts have been blocked and brought to justice.

On the other hand,

corresponding to the main members of the criminal group

have been requested from the competent judicial authority

. The proceedings, which were made available to the Alicante Investigating Court, have been transferred to the National Court.

The operation has been carried out by agents belonging to the Investigation Area of ​​the Civil Guard Post of San Juan (Alicante), who have had the collaboration of agents of the Technical Unit of the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard of Madrid, of the Units Organics of the Judicial Police of Gerona, Malaga, Seville, Zaragoza and La Coruña, as well as members of Interpol, Europol, and different police forces from Latvia, Russia, France, Kazakhstan, Germany, Canada, United States, Liechtenstein, Cameroon , Czech Republic, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus and the United Kingdom.

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