"Drops are hoarding on the Porsche Macan." 17 Petersburgers admit to helping Ukrainian telephone scammers

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"They're saving up for a Porsche Macan." 17 Petersburgers admit to helping Ukrainian phone scammers​

About a hundred employees of the SOBR, the Criminal Investigation Department and the St. Petersburg IC entered dozens of addresses on April 21. Now all 17 suspects are writing a confession about how they cashed out hundreds of millions and transferred bitcoins to Ukraine. The police also admit to Fontanka: "Give us at least another regiment of operas, we will not be able to cope with the epidemic of telephone fraud." But they add, as practitioners, " There is only one way out."

According to Fontanka, at least 5,104 crimes related to telephone fraud were registered in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region in just three months of this year. That is, this is not the number of calls that have already been received and will still be received by literally every resident of the two regions. This is 5 thousand rubles for the victims ' withdrawal of money. Already stolen for 400 million, and this is without April. But the additional statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are even more nightmarish: compared to the same period last year, the growth of such deceptions was 80 percent. Before moving on to the news, we add that last year we recorded about 25 thousand analogies, and the damage exceeded two billion. The average age of the victim is over 65 years. There are practically no young people.

All 17 were detained for the development of the "custom" department of the central board. They are about 25 years old. They seized about 300 plastic cards, 15 million rubles, computer equipment, and so on. "Fontanka" got their faces, and the police do not mind that the residents of St. Petersburg recognized at least someone.

Since many people took part in the operation, the journalist was able to talk to them. They were nervous, to say the least.
"One pretzel first says to me, they say, I just took money from plastic, on which someone threw something. What am I to blame for?", - says the employee, continuing: "I told him: but that grandmother, who was robbed of the last card, died of grief. The cause-and-effect relationship with the murder of a war veteran, do you want me to pull it on your forehead?". To be more specific, last year the phone scammers were assigned to the homicide squad, because they were used to not stand on ceremony with hired killers. The result: all 17 detainees write a confession, especially outspoken will be awarded a subscription not to leave, long-thinking will be dragged to the arrest. But these are tactical procedural joys.

"We record from 30 to 60 crimes a day. But we know, we see, we have already counted a hundred times that the call centers from which they mumble 24 to 7 are located in Ukraine. All. I can't get there. We're lucky that they have to use Dark Money to get the services of our cashiers. Here we are smashing these groups here, " another operative explains to us.
The scheme is, indeed, ordinary. In the call center, every day on the board in front of all the operators hangs the card number of some St. Petersburg resident, the so-called drop. All the money withdrawn is transferred to it. By the evening, there are at least 10 million on it. There is a call to St. Petersburg, drop removes the cache, keeps 10 percent, then rushes to the trader from whom he buys the crypt and transfers it to Ukraine. Moreover, the organizer in Ukraine and the organizer of the network on the Neva do not even know each other. Communication is exclusively by telegram.
"In a month, such a drop earns from 200 to 300 thousand. As a rule, they can't connect two words, and when we put them under covert surveillance, we saw them buying branded clothing in DLT, " explains one of our interlocutors. "I'm driving one today and so sarcastically ask: what do you dream about? And he's a moron, he doesn't even hear the irony, he says: I want to buy a Porsche Macan. Then I asked around with others, so it turns out they were all saving up for a Porsche Macan."

By the way, before the detention, we recorded the distribution of bonuses in this grid. Only the volume of bonuses amounted to 2 million 800 thousand rubles in March.
All the detainees are charged with aiding and abetting fraud on a particularly large scale. The investigation was taken over by the IC of St. Petersburg, where dozens of already initiated criminal cases will be filed. The plot is almost the same for everyone — " ... the injured pensioner of 40 years of birth ... introduced herself as an employee of the security service of Sberbank ... withdrew a sum of money from her account...".
"They are assigned a task, they slam them every week, but it's all pointless," a representative of the Investigative Committee supports the Criminal Investigation Department. "While we are talking to you now, they have already hired new cashiers. You need to change everything on a different level."
"Fontanka" asked, on what floor? According to the hunters, there are two winning moves. The first is to agree with the prosecutor of St. Petersburg Litvinenko and the chairman of the City Court Lakov, so that they are politically competent to look at the initiation of an article on the organized criminal community against such groups. The sanctions there are really very long. And the second: mobile operators and Russian banks should strain themselves and create a powerful system for fast blocking. It is not easy, it is expensive, but according to employees today it should be treated as national security. In the meantime, to be honest, they seem to be neutral and just profitable — some traffic, others interest.

In order not to count the money of big business, we will give an approximate calculation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. "In Moscow, all the statistics are collected, but they are also empty in some places. After all, in many regions, the command is given not to register this shaft. But if on a serious account, then only last year the Russians were stolen in this way under 100 billion rubles, and 90 percent were taken to Ukraine."

 

[Детективное агентство Израиль.]

They got 2 million 800 thousand rubles in March alone: confused:

 

[Детективное агентство. Грузия.]

There were many cases. Where employees of the largest companies leaked customer data to scammers

 

[Частный детектив. Армения. Ереван.]

It's good that the journalists managed to somehow get in touch

 

[Детективное агентство Одесса]

Did they write everything down in great detail?

 

[частный детектив. Узбекистан. Ташкент.]

Cyber fraud is growing every day, be careful!

 

[частный детектив. Узбекистан. Ташкент.]

There were many cases. Where employees of the largest companies leaked customer data to scammers

The addresses, names, status and bank numbers of clients were leaked into the network. It is not surprising that scammers call your Sberbank number

 

[poles1469]

It's kind of called carding (I don't really understand this topic)

 

[Частный детектив. Москва.]

This is how you should do with such people!

 

[Детективное агентство Хабаровск]

This is only in Ukraine, it is not worth talking about Russia