A report reveals an international gang that seizes the money of bank clients after hacking their accounts with "Agouza"
A resident student in Fayoum Governorate and performs the purchasing operations in the name of Mantalle
In peace .. accused who admit to forming a neurotic formation that visits the carnivals of their work in banks
Hisham Okasha: The volume of state losses due to electronic crimes at $ 600 billion in 2018
A list of a set of tips to avoid falling into fraud or fraud
Warning against any information related to credit cards such as the introductory number or password
Warning from some attempts to send text messages to bank customers and inform them of winning a car with a car
Mona Zahi
In light of the prevalence of the Corona virus, the demand for electronic services has doubled unprecedented, especially banking services, for fear of customers to go to bank headquarters and exposure to the deadly virus.
E -commerce rates have also multiplied due to the spread of the virus, and the rates of electronic crime, especially the crimes of the monument to bank customers, also increased through e -shopping sites, and Egypt witnessed many crimes against bank customers, by stealing their data, seizing their money in banks, or buying goodsThrough shopping sites after stealing their credit card or bank cards.
In this file, Al -Naba reviews the most dangerous crimes of the electronic monument to the bank’s customers in Egypt, and what the largest bank, the National Bank, has called its customers to deal with social media sites or deliver their data through these sites.
300% increase in electronic monument crimes
وكشف تقرير لمكتب التحقيقات الفيدرالى أن الجرائم الإلكترونية زادت بنسبة تصل إلى 300 فى المئة منذ بداية جائحة فيروس كورونا التاجى، وقال مركز شكاوى جرائم الإنترنت التابع للمكتب الفيدرالى (IC3) الأسبوع الماضى، إنه يتلقى الآن ما بين 3000 و4000 شكوى تتعلق بالأمن السيبرانى كل يوم، مقارنةً بمتوسط 1،000 شكوى يوميًا التى شهدها المركز قبل COVID-19.
According to the American Engadget website, this increase may be due to American daily activities that are increasingly moving over the Internet, as new employees and workers are not aware of the basic security measures, for example, but the FBI says that many increasing electronic crimes come from the nation -states thatIt seeks to search for "Covid-19".
The security services succeeded in controlling a person to seize electronic payment cards data and use them in the purchase of products through electronic shopping companies, within the framework of the efforts of the Ministry of Interior to combat crime in all their forms, especially in the field of combating fraud and fraud.
An international gang for the monument to the owner of a hotel
On June 13, a report submitted by the owner of a hotel in Agouza revealed an international gang that seizes the money of bank customers after their accounts were penetrated.
The sessions circulated by the Economic Court revealed the details of the crime, as the prosecution's investigations stated that a criminal organization outside the Egyptian lands sends bank account data after it penetrated to the members of the organization within the country and an Indonesian nationality, then the two defendants carry out fake credit card withdrawals, but they deliberately carry out withdrawals «ofLine »to avoid sending the bank messages to customers with accounts so that they do not discover withdrawals and deduction from the bank’s balance.
Investigations and investigations were added to the public funds that the American and Indonesian defendants went to the owner of a hotel in Agouza and offered to transfer customer money to the hotel account where he gets 25 % of the amount of the amount, and the organization gets 75 % to wash the money they get and operate in the hotel.
Immediately after the hotel owner felt the crime, the public funds investigations that asked him to keep up with the defendants were informed until they succeeded in seizing them .. After the defendants were arrested, the Public Prosecution was referred to the trial to prepare the monument, and the Economic Court headed by Counselor Rami Mansour, President of the Cairo Economic Court and membership of the advisers Ahmed Abdel -Qahar and Mohamed Youssef, decided.Several sessions circulated and heard the defendants' defense from an Egyptian lawyer, as the Egyptian law does not allow the pleading of foreigners to seize the case to judge a session.June 27.
A student tracking citizens' complaints on banking sites
On June 11, the General Administration of Public Funds Investigation received a notification from (one of the citizens - a resident of Dakahlia Governorate) that he was subjected to a fraud and fraud by a person after his accusation that he is an employee of customer service in one of the banks and seized his electronic payment card data issued by him from the bank And the use of these data in conducting purchasing operations on one of the sites for electronic shopping, which amounted Modern purchase orders for some computers and accessories from one of the online shopping company using the complainant's electronic payment card.
The efforts of the investigations of the Banking Crime Administration resulted in the fact that behind the perpetration of the incident (a student - a resident of Fayoum Governorate), and he performs purchasing operations in the name of an impersonator .. where he sent deceptive messages to many Egyptian and foreign customers after their accusation that he is an employee of the customer service of some banks and assisted them in obtainingOn their personal loans, accordingly, it was able to seize their electronic payment cards data, use them to perform purchasing operations on e -shopping sites, and buy many electrical appliances, computers, accessories and home appliances.
After codifying the procedures, it was possible to arrest the accused in the Department of the First Fayoum Police Department, and by confronting him, he admitted that he practiced his criminal activity, and added that he is entering on the pages of complaints for banks on social media sites and reviewing them and communicating with the owners of those complaints after their delusion that he is the customer service representative in these banks and can help them finish Their complaints, as well as help them obtain personal loans from banks and seize their electronic payment cards data and use them in conducting many purchasing operations on electronic shopping sites. He also added that he retained a quantity of purchases that he bought, and with his guidance (3 mobile phones used them in procedure Purpowering- 3 computers CPU- 4 Samsung computer screen- 5 Hard Disc The electronic payment cards attributed to the issuance of many banks of the banks of banks are written in the identification numbers of those cards in order to use it In purchasing operations on e -shopping sites - talks and messages with some of its victims of bank customers that include obtaining their electronic payment cards data, and legal measures have been taken.
Erection
Major General Nabil Selim, Director of the Capital Investigation, received a notification from the Investigation of the Azbakeya Police Department, that he received a report from "M Kh", 19 years old, a student of a precedent that he offered his mobile phone for iPhone for sale via the electronic marketing site for an amount of 8 thousand pounds, and one continues with himPeople from a "specific" mobile phone and expressed his desire to buy a mobile phone, and they agreed to meet in Ramses Square, the department department to complete the sale, and after handing over the mobile phone and receiving the aforementioned financial amount, the last left, but he discovered that the financial amounts are imitated.
By conducting investigations and collecting information, it shows the validity of the incident, and through the use of modern technologies, it was possible to determine the perpetrator of the incident and it was found that he is called "MB", 19 years old, a student, and by preparing the necessary ambushes in the places of the accused's frequency, the officers of the Department's Investigation Unit were able to seize him and in possession of the seized mobile phone, a phone"Anonymous Source", 80 securities, 100 pounds, with a total of 8,000 pounds, "imitated.
Confronted with information and investigations and the result of the seizure, he confessed to committing the incident, and approved a criminal activity that specialized in the monument to the citizens after they offered their mobile phones for sale through the e -marketing site and seizing mobile phones for their delivery sums of money and acknowledged that the mobile phone seized in his possession of the proceeds of his criminal activity.The owner is being reached. "
He added that he obtained the financial sums of "MMM", 35 years old, who holds a Bachelor and the resident of the Damasm Damietta Center, which is required to implement in two partial sentences "receipt of trust" with a total imprisonment of 6 months in exchange for a sum of 500 pounds for every 1,000 pounds of counterfeit.By instructing the accused, the latter was arrested, and by confronting him with the statements of the defendant, he supported them and admitted that he obtained his imitated financial amounts from a person named "AB" and residing in Imbaba in Giza for a sum of 300 pounds for every 1,000 counterfeit pounds, and the necessary report was released.
A monument gang on bank customers
On June 9, the Peace Prosecution ordered the referral of 3 accused of impersonating delegates in banks to steal citizens in the city of peace to the misdemeanor court, and investigations revealed that the defendants are "MM", "AM" and "AS", unemployed and registeredIn monument issues.
The defendants confessed to forming a neurotic formation that specialized in stealing citizens and monument them, claiming their work as delegates in banks, and they also admitted that they forge the carts of their work in banks.
The beginning of the incident was when several reports were received by the Peace Police Department stating that 3 people were installed on them, and they collected them on money to make loans belonging to banks without interest, and by conducting the necessary investigations and emptying the surveillance cameras, the defendants were identified and seized, and by asking them they admitted to committing the facts of the monument and edited the necessary report and the prosecution continuedInvestigation.
Article 318 of the Penal Code stipulates that a period not exceeding two years is punished for thefts that were not associated with a tight circumstance.
$ 600 billion international losses
Hisham Okasha, Chairman of the National Bank of Egypt, estimates the volume of countries ’losses due to electronic crimes at 600 billion dollars in 2018, representing 0.8% of the global product, and is expected to reach 6 trillion dollars in 2021.
He added during the Arab Banking Conference in the month of July 2019, that the size of the losses caused by these crimes amounted to about 172 billion dollars, and 978 million individuals were damaged at the level of 20 countries, noting that the losses of the United States are individually reached 20 billion dollars, and the number of affected individualsIt has about 143 million people in the United States of America, and therefore the progress of societies does not prevent them from being exposed to great losses through the development of these crimes.
A dangerous warning from the National Bank
The Bank of the Nationals warned of the Egyptians against sending an update for their personal data to people or pages on Facebook, where the bank said in a statement that it recently noticed the circulation of some fake messages and publications that are published on some Facebook pages.It is issued by unknown sides.
The National Bank explained on its official Facebook page on May 11, that these informal parties and pages on Facebook notify the recipients of the posts that they should send their personal and financial data in order to update these data with the bank.
Al -Ahly Al -Masry stressed that these messages are unfounded and are not related to the bank in any link, and that the primary goal of them is to defraud the bank’s customers, and therefore the bank calls on its customers the need to be careful and not interact permanently with such messages or publications.
The bank called not to give any data of any type to its employees, as well as not to pay attention or interact with any page or social networking site bearing the name of the National Bank of Egypt or publishing news or information related to the bank other than its page and its official website in order to preserve the safety and security of your accounts.
E -hunter
وقال جمال العمير، الخبير في أمن المعلومات والتكنولوجيا،إنه من الناحية التقنية تسمى عملية الاحتيال أو النصب باسم " E -hunter"، حيث يعتمد النصاب على اصطياد الضحية من خلال إيقاعه فريسة بإغرائه بالمميزات وقلة التكلفة والشحن المجاني، والبعض يطلب إرسال مبالغ مالية قبل الشحن لضمان الحجز، والبعض الآخر يرسل منتجات غير صالحة بعد إرسال المبلغ، وبالتالي لا يمكن العثور على البائع، لأن الأمر كله يتم من خلال عامل افتراضي، ومن السهل غلق الصفحة الوهمية وتغير رقم الهاتف.
He added that the buyer must be aware of all the products that they buy, and that it be from a source or a person with confidence, so it should not be just an advertisement on social media pages, because most of these ads depend on marketing methods to attract customers and suspend them and push them to buy products, explaining thatWomen are more vulnerable to deception than men, especially since the seller is afraid of men and tries to adhere to him. As for women, they are easy and valuable hunting, and the trade of the makeup, clothes and devices are the most promoted in the ban periods, given the closure of the shops and the usual shopping.
For his part, the head of the Consumer Protection Agency issued a number of guidelines for citizens to avoid falling into the monuments across the border, perhaps the most important of which is the necessity of knowing who deals and verifying the name of the other party in each electronic dealings, while making sure of the address of the street in which he is present and his phone number.
It also noted the instructions of the device to delete any requests that they claim to be foreigners asking you to help them transfer their money through your bank account, so these are quorum.
The device also called for the necessity of ignoring the emails you receive without asking them, which requires you to pay certain funds or disclose your credit card numbers, your Egyptian account or any other personal information.
Banks warn customers of the electronic monument
Many victims fall into electronic monuments, which have increased recently, so the "Al -Ahly", "Al -Ahly", "Graidi Agricole" and "Arab African" banks warned their customers to fall into the trap of fraud and fraud, demanding not to make any data on bank accounts.
The means of warning varied between communicating with customers on the hotline or through Facebook, during which a number of customer complaints had been received by a fraud attempt, as they were sent in the name of the bank to obtain data and information about their credit cards, which these banks warned of.
National Bank of Egypt
On the official National Bank page on Facebook, the bank published a warning to its customers, that some people try to send text messages to bank customers and inform them by winning with clouds on a car, which are incorrect messages.
Greed Bank Agricole
ونفى Greed Bank Agricole عن طريق الخط الساخن، صحة وجود اتصالات من موظفين بالبنك للحصول على معلومات تخص حساباتهم البنكية.
The bank warned its customers against giving any information related to credit cards such as the introductory number or password, or the numbers in the back of the card, in anticipation of trying to seize their accounts.
Arabian African Bank
The Arab African Bank published on its Facebook page a warning to its customers, in addition to a set of advice to avoid falling into the fraud or fraud, which is:
1. I always make sure of the URL address that you interfere with.
2. The approved and correct sites always have a green lock sign at the site address.
3. Good sites preceded by https and the S character.
4. If the site is asked you, your name or phone, asking yourself, you want this data before you write any information about you.
5. It is very important to know that it is impossible for any bank site that asks you about data for your account number, your banking cards or its secret codes through a website or social media pages.
6. The bank's e-banking services site is impossible to ask you data on your bank cards, or its secret codes.
