ArmInfo. On April 18, the National Security Service of Armenia neutralized the cybercrime group, which, through fraud, "facilitated" the bank accounts of 26 citizens of Artsakh.
Members of the criminal group, having studied the profiles of users of the social network , chose 26 citizens of Artsakh, then creating false profiles on the names of their relatives living abroad, entered into correspondence with them. Having assured them of the desire to provide financial assistance, criminals received information about bank accounts and passwords of victims, and then withdrew money from these accounts.
Five people were arrested in the criminal case. Work is under way to identify the remaining members of the group, as well as all the victims of this crime. The National Security Service of Armenia calls on citizens who suffered from such actions to call to numbers 011-56-27- 24 and 010-57-94-07. SNB revealed a number of other similar crimes. Thus, a group of citizens of Russia indirectly for a meager reward prompted citizens of Armenia to open currency accounts in one of the banks of Armenia, and give them bank cards from them. Further, the members of the criminal group, using cyberviruses and having access to the computer network of this bank, "replenished" the zero accounts of these cards and cash from ATMs in the cities of Riga, Moscow and St. Petersburg, cashed $ 160,000 with plastic cards. In fact, 2 Armenian citizens were arrested, as well as the identities of other criminals involved in the case, who are citizens of foreign countries. Measures are being taken to locate and prosecute them.
The NSC revealed another criminal group of 4 people - citizens of Spain, Lithuania and Georgia, whose members illegally obtained access to information from one of the US banks, including IDs and passwords of customers. Then they made an online transfer from these accounts to the accounts opened in one of the Armenian banks in the amount of 32 million AMD. Then the criminals tried to cash out these amounts in ATMs, but the employees of the Armenian bank considered these transactions suspicious and blocked the accounts. The identity of the participants in a transnational criminal group has been identified, and work is underway to locate and prosecute them. With the disclosure of all these and similar crimes, the National Security Service of Armenia actively cooperates with foreign authorities, including Interpol.