A 20-year-old resident of the Lviv district was exposed by operatives of the Cybercrime Countermeasures Department in the Lviv region together with investigators of police department No. 1 of the Lviv district police department No. 2, under the procedural guidance of the Pustomytiv district prosecutor’s office.
As the law enforcement officers established, the suspect gained access to someone else’s account in one of the social networks and on behalf of the owner of this account made a money loan in the amount of 5,800 hryvnias from another citizen registered in the same network. The victim transferred the specified amount to the attacker’s bank card. Of course, the swindler had no intention of returning the funds obtained by crime – instead, he appropriated the money and used it at his own discretion.
The investigators informed the intruder of the suspicion of criminal offenses provided for in Part 3 of Article 190 (Fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and Part 1 of Article 361 (Unauthorized interference with the work of information (automated), electronic communication, information and communication systems, electronic communication networks) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The maximum punishment provided by the sanctions of the articles is imprisonment for a term of up to five years.
The pre-trial investigation is ongoing.
Communications Department of the Lviv Oblast Police