Fraud for tourist vouchers. The couple extorted 100,000 PLN with the help of Messenger

The District Prosecutor’s Office in Gdańsk informed about the charges against the pair of fraudsters who broke into Facebook and offered tourist vouchers by Messenger. Mateusz G. and Paweł D. worked out the Central Office of Cybercrime in Gdańsk.

The fraudster sold tourist vouchers on Facebook by Messenger

On the Facebook user’s account taken over after hacking, one of the perpetrators issued an offer to sell a voucher of a well -known travel agency worth PLN 12,000. for a bargain price from PLN 4,000 to PLN 8,000. The ads were posted as entries on a person’s board with a blocked comment function or in the form of a relationship. The victim’s friends whose account was taken over was usually responded to such an advertisement.

Correspondence with Internet users seekers was then conducted via the Messenger messenger. The victims, who decided to buy such a voucher, made payments from 4,000 to 8,000 PLN to the indicated bank accounts, which belonged to other people, the so -called “Silesia”.

Investigators found that people who were received by cash did not know about participation in criminal procedure. They thought that they were participants of the BLIK payments program, to which they joined through the emergency offer issued by the perpetrator on the social profile.

Then these people transferred cash via BLIK, which enabled fraudsters to pay them at an ATM. The prosecutor’s office found that such ads were also issued from the accounts on Facebook taken over by fraudsters. In this way, at least PLN 102,500 from 18 victims was extorted.

The 17-year-old broke into Facebook, the 35-year-old cheated people

17-storey Paweł D. was accused of breaking security in the form of e-mail passwords and successively obtaining access to profiles on the social networking site Facebook at the behest of Mateusz G.

35-year-old Mateusz G. heard as many as 25 allegations, including

• bringing or attempting to bring to an unfavorable disposal of the property of a number of people after breaking the security in the form of e -mail passwords and successively access to profiles on the social networking site, impersonating the user of the acquired profile and successively issuing without intention to comply with the obligation i.e. for deeds of art. 286 § 1 of the Penal Code in Zb. joke. 267 § 1 of the Penal Code in joke. 11 § 2 of the Penal Code, from art. 13 § 1 of the Penal Code in joke. 286 § 1 of the Penal Code in Zb. joke. 267 § 1 of the Penal Code in joke. 11 § 2 of the Penal Code (fraud, illegal obtaining information by breaking security),

• taking actions aimed at thwarting or significantly impeding the statement of criminal origin and the place of placement of funds from the above -mentioned offenses (money laundering), i.e. acts of art. 299 § 1 of the Penal Code,

• in the scope of managerial perpetration regarding the overcoming of security in the form of e -mail passwords and successively obtaining access to profiles on the social networking site Facebook: i.e. for an act pursuant to art. 18 § 1 of the Penal Code in joke. 267 § 1 of the Penal Code

Paweł D. (17 years old) The prosecutor charged the overcoming collateral in the form of e -mail passwords and successively obtaining access to profiles on the social networking site Facebook at the behest of Mateusz G., i.e. for an act of art. 267 § 1 of the Penal Code (illegal obtaining information by breaking security).

At the request of prosecutor, Mateusz G. was temporarily arrested for 3 months. Paweł D. is banned from contacting specific people and police supervision. The fraud threatens from 6 months to 8 years in prison, for money laundering from 6 to 8 years, and for illegal obtaining information up to 2 years in prison.

The investigation is of a developmental nature. Preliminary findings show that at least 195 proceedings regarding the same methods of action are conducted in the prosecutor’s office units throughout Poland, where the total amount of losses is not less than PLN 1,916,855.