Armenia`s National Security Service has neutralized several  cybercrime groups engaged in bank fraud

ArmInfo. On April 18, the National Security Service of Armenia neutralized the cybercrime group, which, through fraud, "facilitated" the bank accounts of 26  citizens of Artsakh.

Members of the criminal group, having studied the profiles of users  of the social network , chose 26 citizens of  Artsakh, then creating false profiles on the names of their relatives  living abroad, entered into correspondence with them. Having assured  them of the desire to provide financial assistance, criminals  received information about bank accounts and passwords of victims,  and then withdrew money from these accounts.

Five people were arrested in the criminal case. Work is under way to  identify the remaining members of the group, as well as all the  victims of this crime. The National Security Service of Armenia calls  on citizens who suffered from such actions to call to numbers  011-56-27- 24 and 010-57-94-07. SNB revealed a number of other  similar crimes. Thus, a group of citizens of Russia indirectly for a  meager reward prompted citizens of Armenia to open currency accounts  in one of the banks of Armenia, and give them bank cards from them.  Further, the members of the criminal group, using cyberviruses and  having access to the computer network of this bank, "replenished" the  zero accounts of these cards and cash from ATMs in the cities of  Riga, Moscow and St. Petersburg, cashed $ 160,000 with plastic cards.  In fact, 2 Armenian citizens were arrested, as well as the identities  of other criminals involved in the case, who are citizens of foreign  countries. Measures are being taken to locate and prosecute them.

The NSC revealed another criminal group of 4 people - citizens of  Spain, Lithuania and Georgia, whose members illegally obtained access  to information from one of the US banks, including IDs and passwords  of customers. Then they made an online transfer from these accounts  to the accounts opened in one of the Armenian banks in the amount of  32 million AMD. Then the criminals tried to cash out these amounts in  ATMs, but the employees of the Armenian bank considered these  transactions suspicious and blocked the accounts. The identity of the  participants in a transnational criminal group has been identified,  and work is underway to locate and prosecute them. With the  disclosure of all these and similar crimes, the National Security  Service of Armenia actively cooperates with foreign authorities,  including Interpol.