207 people arrested for online banking scams of more than 830,000 euros with victims throughout Spain

The National Police has arrested 207 people for alleged fraud of more than 830,000 euros through online banking scams, in an investigation initiated when detecting the increase in this type of online fraud in the national territory, with victims throughout Spain. As reported by the Police this Friday through a press release, the crime would have been committed through the ‘spoofing’ technique and the arrests have been made on the people whose task was to receive the fraudulent transfers from the scams. Cybercriminals spoofed the telephone numbers of the victims’ banking entities through the use of computer applications and tried to gain their trust until they obtained all the data necessary to access their accounts. Once this access was acquired, the cybercriminals ordered transfers to bank accounts controlled by themselves and that were in the names of “mules.” The operation has been directed by the Central Cybercrime Unit and began in September of last year, when the Corps detected an increase in this type of online fraud in the national territory. The agents of the National Police remember that banking entities do not request personal or banking information by telephone or SMS, which is why they recommend that their clients never provide passwords through this means, but use the banks’ official applications. and do not make payments or update data through links received by email or SMS.