16 registrations have been carried out in towns in the provinces of Madrid, Málaga, Huelva, Alicante and Murcia
Agents of the National Police have dismantled a criminal organization that allegedly carried out different computer scams and had data on more than four million people, according to a statement.
Specifically, 34 members of the criminal group have been arrested and 16 searches have been carried out in towns in the provinces of Madrid, Malaga, Huelva, Alicante and Murcia, where two simulated firearms, a katana, a baseball bat, 80,000 euros in cash, four high-end vehicles, a database with crossed information of four million people and computer and electronic material valued at thousands of euros have been seized. .
The criminal organization carried out fraudulent activities worth almost three million euros carrying out various types of scams.
The leaders of the network used false documentationusing ‘spoofing’ techniques to hide their identity and invested their profits in crypto assets.
A common pattern
The investigation began at the beginning of this year by specialized agents of the Central Cybercrime Unit, when they identified a criminal network that illegally accessed databases from various financial and credit entities, entering customer accounts different amounts of money from the credit institution.
Immediately afterwards, they contacted those clients informing them that due to a computer error They had taken out a loan and had to pay it back. As the investigation progressed, it was discovered that they also penetrated other multinational commercial databases, obtaining personal data of more than four million people who could have been used to commit their criminal actions.
This information being used to carry out ‘vishing‘ simulating the identity of electricity supply companies, phishing campaigns impersonating the identity of different banking entities, the ‘son in trouble‘, as well as the fraud of a technology company, by taking advantage of the fact that one of the members of the organization occupied a strategic position in a technology multinational, diverting merchandise from suppliers to the organization, without going through the company that had actually acquired the products. computer and electronic.
In addition, they obtained profits of around three million euros, selling to other criminal organizations the websites programmed by the organization’s hackers (such as fake websites of banking entities, mass message sending or cross databases) through specialized forums.
The main leaders of the network have been placed in provisional prison and more than 1,000 complaints have been clarified, not ruling out the identification of more perpetrators and victims.