What is the surprise trick of a fraud group that scolded a total of ¥ 23 billion over the sea by phone?

by Suzy Hazelwood

A federal prosecutor in Atlanta, Georgia has arrested a group of fraudulent fraud cases that had been frequent in the United States between 2011 and 2014, and announced that all of its members had found the case. The suspect is a man in Romania, about 9,000 km from the United States, who has been talked about using a simple phone-based method to fool the total amount of $ 21 million (approximately ¥ 23 billion).

Three Romanian citizens plead guilty to participating in a multi-million dollar “vishing and smishing” scheme | USAO-NDGA | Department of Justice
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/pr/three-romanian-citizens-plead-guilty-participating-multi-million-dollar-vishing-and

Three men cop to $ 21 million vishing and smishing scheme | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/3-men-plead-guilty-to-vishing-and-smishing-scheme-estimated-to-cost-21-million/

According to the Atlanta State of federal prosecutors, three of the suspects "from 2011 to 2014 Bisshingu and" " smishing in two ways that", cash and personal information in distant America while are in Romania It was reported that he was cheating.

Bicsing, also known as "voice fishing," uses automated voice guidance on the phone to pretend to be a financial institution, to guide victims and retrieve account numbers and personal information. Smithing is a method of tricking a user's credit card number and personal information into a fake page impersonating a financial institution or company using a mobile phone SMS message.

The criminal group broke into a server in Atlanta and installed an automated voice response system and a large amount of email software. And send phone and SMS messages impersonating a financial institution to thousands of people across the United States. The victim who received the phone call from the server entered the financial account number, social security number, etc. from the phone as prompted by fake voice guidance. In addition, the victim was guided to the fake input page prepared on the server that invaded by the SMS message, and the personal information was stolen.

One in three people accessed the intruded server to collect the stolen personal information, the other two pulled out cash based on the stolen personal information, and sold personal information in the underground market Of. Despite having a hacked server as a foothold, the crime group has been scammed for three years using a simple, low-tech trick that uses a phone call to fool the $ 21 million.

by mohamed Hassan

Robert Codrut Dumitrescu, who has been arrested in Romania, has been charged with fraud, computer hacking and identity theft. In addition, Teodor Laurentiu Costea and Cosmin Draghici, who were arrested for alleged accomplices, also admitted in January 2019. At the time of his arrest, Dumitrescu had a 3278 account, Costea a 36,050 account, and Draghici a 3465 account number.

3 people of custody is of Romania Ploiesti thing to have been handed over to Atlanta from. The trial is scheduled to be held, and the decision will be made from June to July 2019.