the head of The Italian Anti-Mafia Agency DIA, warned recently that criminal syndicates would take advantage of the Coronavirus pandemic for their own purposes. In the process, Guiseppe Show had placed his attention on the period after the end of the crisis. Then the four big Mafia would try to organizations of the Italian boot, through fraud and loan-sharking profits out of it.
in this Country, cyber gangster seem, however, to be a step further. Since yesterday, Wednesday, the Landeskriminalamt (LKA) NRW and the determined Central point of contact Cybercrime (ZAC) at the Cologne public Prosecutor against a fraud Ring that has the emergency aid campaign of the state government for the depressed state of the economy undermined. Via fake applications, they conceded financial assistance on a large scale. Ask your questions to Covid-19
A very simple mesh
The mesh was the information provided by the criminal tracker is very simple: The crooks found pages on the net, the imitation deceptively, the emergency aid website of the provincial government. In the same way as in the Original, she then asked the applicant through the questionnaire according to his data.
With the help of the spied info, the swindler in the name of the help requested-seeking companies to the real Homepage of the Ministry of economy an injection of cash. The fake help of just a Change in the real application: the account number contained however. The state gave donations to Bank accounts of the scammers ring.
According to initial estimates made by the prosecutors up to 4000 applicants could be affected. “This is an interim situation,” said the NRW Minister of the interior, Herbert Reul (CDU), in a Statement on Thursday. After a number of criminal charges, you have formed an investigation Commission at the LKA. It was “highly professional people who are extremely approach is ruthless and difficult to identify”.
financial flows are in the Darknet
veiled the flow of Finance to be hired to disguise the Cyber-tricksters in the Darknet customers who gave you their account available. After the grants of the state government were received, split the loot. The swindler-Ring converted his share in Bitcoins and transferred the cryptocurrency into hard-to-track channels.
you Should be able to the crooks is no curb, from Reul of a damage in the millions. “These scammers think that they can take advantage of an acute emergency, at the expense of the General public. We must prevent at all costs. Because all of the government Agencies with high-pressure and hard working.“
At the Central office, the computer to run hot
In the case of the Central office against cybercrime, the computer to run hot. Since the Fake pages to run on a foreign Provider, “it is our first goal, to take these from the network,” said the ZAC-state’s attorney Christoph Hebbecker in Cologne justice center.
North Rhine-Westphalia Economics Minister Andreas Pinkwart (FDP) announced on Thursday afternoon, the provisional stop of the emergency aid measures. The Transfers for Maundy Thursday had been put on ice. Currently, check search all open Materials, and permits. Meanwhile, 320,000 of applications from small and medium-sized enterprises in the Rhine and Ruhr was given instead.
pink were bat companies and freelancers to be patient and understanding. “We will resume payments as soon as possible.” The Minister hoped that his house could already switch in the days after Easter, the Corona-emergency assistance-page free. “Because one thing is clear: We need the small business to come back quickly from the crisis.”
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SPD-party leader, speaks of the “great mess”
SPD parliamentary leader Thomas Kutschaty spoke of a “big mess” can be. Such a plight to take advantage of, represents a particularly serious Form of crime, which was obviously organized in a highly professional manner. “This phenomenon is not unknown, the state government is already in the procurement of the mouth protection masks of a similar Scam up. You must now that social criminals to place as quickly as possible the craft and get the money back.“
The Green-group Chairman, Monika Düker was worried about the “many thousands of Applicants and applicants”, the location of which will due to the lack of payouts even more explosive. “The government must therefore immediately clear when the aid will flow again. It must be ensured that the banks will immediately receive reliable information, so that they can make over the Easter days, if necessary, to continue to provide liquidity.“
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