A nineteen-year-old resident of Lviv, who fraudulently extorted more than 100,000 hryvnias from citizens, was exposed by operatives of the Cybercrime Countermeasures Department in the Lviv Region together with investigators of the Police Department No. 1 of the Lviv District Police Department No. 1 and employees of the bank’s security service, under the procedural guidance of the Galician District prosecutor’s office
The Police of the Lviv region informed the Voice of Sokal Region about this.
According to law enforcement officers, the attacker created phishing websites of various government and banking institutions on the Internet, sent letters to clients on their behalf, and later, after receiving their personal data and access to bank accounts, transferred funds to his accounts.
The law enforcement officers documented three episodes of illegal activity of the suspect, who in this way took possession of the victims’ funds for a total amount of more than 112 thousand hryvnias.
Investigators informed the perpetrator of suspicion of criminal offenses provided for in part 4 of article 190 (Fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and part 2 of article 15 – part 4 of article 190 (Attempt to defraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The maximum penalty that threatens the suspect is imprisonment for a term of up to eight years.
The pre-trial investigation continues, law enforcement officers are establishing the identities of other criminals involved in these crimes.