Interpol, together with Nigerian authorities arrested a 40 year old man to fraudulently over half a billion by email scam. It writes Interpol said in a statement.
The man is suspected of leading a global network of fraudsters, and was arrested at the beginning of June in Port Harcourt in Nigeria.
509 million
40-year-old is referred to as a “mastermind”, according to the press release have been working together with 40 other people from around the world. Interpol assume he is behind fraud totaling 509 million – around $ 60 million.
The league should have taken over email accounts of small and medium businesses worldwide, and on the way they have gained confidence. Victims of svindlingen should have been other companies.
How is this form of fraud possible. It has NorSIS tried to answer earlier in a digi.no case.
– Manipulates rather people
– When it becomes difficult to break into one tries rather to manipulate people, Roger Johnsen NorSIS spoken to us earlier.
A company should have been tricked into paying out a sum of $ 16.4 million – nearly 140 million.
According to a lawyer for International Fraud Group is not this summer is particularly startling.
– The amount is small in the larger context. What is remarkable is that they are taken. They are usually very good at hiding their tracks and hiding behind hundreds of zombie servers, says lawyer Gary Miller to AP according to VG.
Kyberkriminalitetøkonomien believed to be in the order of one to two billion US dollars .
40-year-old believed to lead the spam network is released on bail pending further investigation into the case.
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