A nice net for the Parisian judicial police.
A cybercriminal network, specializing in the theft of bank data, was dismantled on March 28 and 29.
The criminal organization was led by a 17-year-old young man from Toulouse.
Information revealed by our colleagues from
RTL
and confirmed to
Figaro
by a police source and by someone close to the case.
The arrested were specialized in the phishing scam.
This technique consists of posing, for example, as a bank to steal personal information and resell it afterwards.
"
The scammers have a very good command of the sector to which they claim to belong
", explains
the police source to Le
Figaro .
"
This technique can abuse any type of person regardless of their intellectual profile
," she adds.
600,000 euros raised
Once the credit card credentials were in their possession, the cybercriminals exchanged them for cryptocurrency on online platforms.
Victims were deducted directly from their accounts.
A traffic that would have garnered 600,000 euros in less than a year.
Investigators from the Cybercrime Brigade (BLDC) and the Payment Means Fraud Brigade (BFMP) had been on the trail of this network since June 2022. A long investigation that led to the fall of a cybercriminal organization on an unprecedented scale in France.
Gray areas remain to be clarified.
The investigating judge issued a letter of request for the BFMP to continue to investigate,
Le Figaro
learned from the same source.