A prison call center was exposed in Vinnytsia: about 30 prisoners stole money from Ukrainian bank accounts
Kyiv • UNN
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) liquidated a fraudulent call center in Vinnytsia prison, where prisoners posed as security officers to steal money from bank cards. The SBU detained five criminals who managed to defraud tens of thousands of Ukrainians.
Law enforcement officers have liquidated a fraudulent call center in a Vinnytsia prison that was stealing money from Ukrainian bank cards on a massive scale. This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine, UNN reports .
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According to the investigation, the scheme involved almost 30 prisoners of the Vinnytsia colony or their accomplices who had already been released. They called depositors of financial institutions, introduced themselves as "security officers" and assured them that fraudsters were trying to hack their cards.
The criminals then offered citizens to transfer funds to a so-called "security account", which was actually a bank account of the fraudsters. In this way, the group defrauded tens of thousands of Ukrainians.
The criminal activity was organized by the so-called "warden" of the penal colony, a criminal prisoner nicknamed "Gesha".
Currently, five perpetrators have been detained, and five more prisoners have been transferred to a disciplinary isolation unit of the penal institution. In addition, the issue of serving a notice of suspicion to 17 more members of the criminal organization is being resolved.
