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The police opened a criminal case against the scammers’ assistant, “dropa,” to whose account the deceived elderly woman transferred 320 thousand rubles, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Krasnodar Territory told RAPSI. It was...

The accused was found guilty of committing crimes under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud”. According to investigators, from February to April 2023, the 37-year-old defendant and his accomplices, in respect of whom the criminal case materials were...

More than 2,500 operators “worked” in “offices” located in almost every regional center of the country. More than 840 law enforcement officers took part in comprehensive measures to eliminate the activities of fraudulent call centers, 660 of whom were police officers. As a result, cells of...

Operatives of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kursk region, in cooperation with colleagues from the city of Khanty-Mansiysk, detained five suspects in a series of frauds committed against residents of several regions of Russia. “It has been previously established that the...

Indian police are investigating dozens of fake cryptocurrency investment websites and mobile apps that may be masquerading as crypto exchange CoinDCX. Delhi Police said it has received numerous complaints from affected users who invested in digital assets. For example, a 24-year-old Indian...

Chinese law enforcement authorities say they have uncovered a large underground money laundering network involving virtual assets. The creators and operators of the exchanger have already been arrested. In November 2022, the police in Qingdao, Shandong Province, came to the attention of the...

Employees of police department No. 3 of the Krivoy Rog district police department established that the suspects posted information about the sale of goods on one of the advertisement sites on the Internet. A mandatory condition of sale was partial or full subscription to a bank card. After...

There is a new topic for discussion in the criminal community. German law enforcement agencies conducted a successful operation to seize the servers of the Kingdom Market darknet market, known for selling drugs, malware, forged documents and other tools for cybercriminals. Currently, the...

In the fall of 2022, a resident of the Kostroma region contacted the duty station of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the city of Kostroma, reporting that she had purchased a boat motor through a well-known Internet service. The woman paid for the purchase by bank transfer in the...

Employees of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Tomsk region detained three local residents. They are suspected of committing several episodes of telephone fraud. "It was previously established that in the city of Tomsk, malefactors...

Employees of the Inter-municipal Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia "Orenburg" detained two residents of the region. They are suspected of serial fraud using Internet technologies. "It was previously established that the attackers developed two criminal schemes. The first...

Employees of the Department for Combating Cybercrime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, together with colleagues from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Frunzensky district, stopped the activities of an organized...

Operatives of the Main Transport Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, in cooperation with colleagues from the Central and Volga Federal Districts and employees of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, stopped the activities of an...

Human rights activists are sounding the alarm, have the law enforcement officers crossed the permissible line? The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has signed a multi-million dollar contract with the Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies to purchase a software package for mass collection and...

In the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia "Verkhnekamsky", a resident of Kirsa applied with a statement about hacking his account in one of the popular social networks. An unknown person under his name began sending letters to friends in the group asking them to lend money...

Hong Kong police began investigating the activities of the Hounax cryptocurrency platform, receiving complaints from 131 people, whose total losses amounted to 120 million Hong Kong dollars (about $15.4 million). According to police, the alleged scammers communicated with the affected users via...

Brest residents found an ad for renting an apartment at an affordable price on one of the popular sites. Tenants were completely satisfied with the conditions, so they immediately wrote a message to the owner with a request to see the housing. The messages were answered by a girl. She warned...

Illegal activities of the prisoner were stopped and documented by operatives of the Criminal Investigation Department of the State Police Service of Ukraine in the Odessa region, investigators of the police Department No. 3 of the Odessa District Police Department No. 1 and employees of the...

Employees of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia "Irkutskoe" during a business trip to Moscow detained a suspect in a series of frauds. "It was previously established that the 33-year-old native of Irkutsk for several years through a popular...

Under the guise of employees of the security service of leading Ukrainian banks, the attackers called citizens, interfered with their mobile banking and transferred the victims ' money to the bank accounts of figureheads, international cryptocurrency exchanges and accounts of gambling platforms...