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Only thanks to the promptness of the capital forensics was he able to stop part of the transferred funds. During the searches, cash, payment cards from foreign banks and devices with the identification data of users of foreign payment instruments were found.
Vilnius County Officials from the Criminal Police Property Crimes Investigation Board of the Chief Commissariat of Police completed a pre-trial investigation into cyber fraud. 2019 September. After cyber scammers hacked into their email accounts and intercepted electronic correspondence between the two foreign companies, information was provided that the details of the bank accounts to which the payment orders for the services provided and the details of the bank account belonging to a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania the company transferred about 30,000 euros, reports the Vilnius county police.
At the same time, cyber fraudsters in Nigeria, in communication with a Lithuanian citizen to whose account the criminally obtained funds were transferred, gave the latter instructions on the methods of realization of the funds received, specifying the details of the bank account of the foreign citizens. Only thanks to the promptness of the criminal police officers was half of the money transferred stopped.
During the pre-trial investigation, a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania and a citizen of Nigeria were reported suspicions, searches were conducted to find cash, foreign bank payment cards and confiscated devices, which were then used to identify users of foreign payment instruments (bank payment card data). .
2020 December. The prosecutor of the Vilnius District Prosecutor’s Office of the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office referred the case to court.
Officials in the capital point out that these cases are not unique in police practice, so the attention of all institutions, company managers or other financial personnel should be drawn to the need to responsibly evaluate emails before make payment orders. the sender of the email (if you know the sender’s email address). If it is indicated that the bank account of business partners or the bank itself has changed, it is necessary to contact the party by phone or otherwise, do not press the email. Do not send the annexed documents, especially if the sender is unknown.
The Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania provides for prison sentences of up to eight years, while for manufacturing a counterfeit electronic payment instrument, forging a genuine electronic payment instrument or illegally disposing of an electronic payment instrument or its data, the penalty imprisonment is up to six years.
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