3 detained in cyber fraud involving minor accomplice
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Three individuals have been detained for illegal access to computer systems by a group and stealing 72,500 GEL (22,000 USD). The three individuals were assisted by a 17-year-old.
The crime is punishable by 6-10 years in prison.
The Georgian Interior Ministry said that the 17-year-old individual created a so-called fisher website which resembled the interface of a Georgian bank.
Then he shared the website on social media and urged users to participate in a lottery.
Several users typed their personal data and bank information there.
In total the individuals stole money from eight bank accounts.
Police have detained four persons for cyber crime in Tbilisi and Batumi, says the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Detainees illegally used personal information of 13 people to illegally access their internet bank and online gambling accounts and stole 42,000 GEL ($14,756/€13,014) in total.
The individuals identified as G.Gh., I.D. and V.M. published photos of vehicles on Myauto.ge web portal with a price lower than the market cost and fraudulently forced the buyers to transfer part of money to their accounts.
The Division for the Fight Against Cybercrime has detained two individuals for cybercrime in Georgia’s western Ozurgeti municipality, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Police have detained a Georgian citizen for cyber crimes in Tbilisi, Interior Ministry reported yesterday. The ministry said the individual, identified only as A.B. and born in 2000, fraudulently accessed the Facebook accounts of 25 people between December 2019 and May 2020.
Georgian police have detained an Indian citizen for illegally accessing computer systems, extraction and misuse of computer data and theft. The crime is punishable by three to five years in prison.