According to the police investigation, a group of 16 suspects took over the mobile devices of dozens of victims, and through them penetrated the bank accounts and took money out of them fraudulently
Withdraw funds and transfer to other accounts
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Police arrested this morning (Tuesday) at the end of an undercover investigation 16 suspects in a cyber fraud amounting to more than half a million shekels.
According to the suspicion, the fraud was carried out by a couple, residents of Kiryat Tivon in their 40s, during which they took over the telephone subscriptions of dozens of victims, most of them elderly, and hacked into their bank accounts, withdrew money and transferred to other accounts.
The investigation further shows that the gang chose to carry out the scams uniquely according to the corona period, emphasizing the closure periods when the victims did not leave their home or visit the bank branches so they could not track or detect suspicious transactions in their bank account, allowing suspects to continue And spend money fraudulently without hindrance.
This morning the investigation moved to the overt stage when Coastal Police detectives arrested 16 suspects across the country, along with a search of their homes and seizure of computers, digital storage devices and findings that may be relevant to the investigation.