Crooks swindled about €3 million from victims
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Cops began investigating the gang at the beginning of the year after the criminals hacked databases belonging to a host of financial and credit firms, swiped those customers' identities, and then altered the amount of money in the victims' accounts. Law enforcement later uncovered other commercial databases that the gang had broken into and stolen personal information. According to police, the gang's scams ran the gamut including email, voicemail and SMS phishing campaigns impersonating electric companies' employees. They also swindled victims using so-called"son-in-distress" scams, where fraudsters pretend to be someone's child who claims to have been kidnapped or otherwise in need of money.
In total, the crooks swindled about €3 million from their victims, and they also sold access to the compromised organizations' IT environments.
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