Ukrainian Police takes down financial scam call centre
A network of call centres used by a cyber crime group to run cryptocurrency scams have been taken down by the National Police of Ukraine (NPU).
The malicious cyber threat collective was running financial rackets, targeting victims of cryptocurrency scams under the guise of helping them recover their stolen funds.
According to the National Police of Ukraine (NPU), the fraudsters behind the illegal call centres were also allegedly involved in scamming citizens of Ukraine and European Union countries who were interested in cryptocurrency, securities, gold, and oil investments.
The NPU used software and high-tech equipment that made it possible to spoof the phone numbers of state banking organisations throughout this cross-border fraud operation.
“The organisers of the scheme used previously created websites and platforms for exchange trading of currency and cryptocurrency, securities, gold and oil to attract funds from foreign citizens, guaranteeing the receipt of excess profits in a short time.
“In the course of the investigation, it was established that the employees of call centres presented themselves as employees of these state banking institutions and extorted confidential data of citizens’ bank cards,” the NPU said.
The fraudsters claimed to be members of a so-called “community of cryptocurrency brokers”. The cyber attacker collective also used contact information belonging to previous victims of other…
