In the Beloyarsk region, three men appeared before the court, who were engaged in telephone fraud. For six months, cybercriminals - Alexey Firsov, Alexei Lyubkin, Vasily Lyubkin - deceived 65 people from different regions of Russia and poured more than 600 thousand rubles from them.

As reported in the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk region, during the period from January to July 2016, the members of the criminal group sent short text messages to the subscriber numbers of people from St. Petersburg, Kursk, Lipetsk, Smolensk regions. They had false information about the planned operation to write off money in the amount of 5 thousand rubles from the accounts of the bank cards of these subscribers.

After receiving the SMS message, the victims called the subscriber number of the criminal group member in order to prevent unauthorized write-off of funds.

During the telephone conversation, the participants of the criminal group were represented by the employees of the financial and credit institution, informed the subscribers about the possibility of canceling the operation for writing off money from accounts and illegally received information about the subscriber's bank card: bank card number, validity of the bank card, security code, balance on the card relating to bank secrecy. After that, the person's money was transferred to his account.

The Beloyarskiy District Court found them guilty of committing a crime,. 2 items. 159. 6 CUC of the Russian Federation (fraud in the sphere of computer information committed by a group of persons by prior agreement). Alexei Firsov and Alexei Lyubkin were sentenced to compulsory works for a period of 400 hours, Vasily Lyubkin to correctional labor for 1 year 6 months with retention of 15% of wages. Also, the Beloyarskiy district court granted civil claims of 37 victims.