It’s not the secret that progress means for swindlers as much as
for legislative people. They only use it extremely illegally and
with the purpose of fast enrichment. Her are some characteristic
stories, which have taken place in sphere of high technologies
in Belarus lately.
Fooled Byelorussians
600 thousand USD as it seemed to him, the Belarus executive
Dmitry Rybkin invested in the building business of Nigeria. He
received e-mail in which a certain Alex Deck presented himself
as the bookkeeper of the Nigerian building company, very
convincingly suggested to receive 10 million dollars of the
profit.
This huge sum killed any awareness in Dmitry at once. In fact,
to invest in business on construction of shopping center it was
necessary a real drop - 14 thousand dollars. Belarusian agreed
come into the business, but suggested cautiously, that his
Nigerian partner Mr. Deck would frankly paid half from this sum.
The Nigerian agreed. The next payment from the trustful
Byelorussian sent under the pretext of payment for lawyer
services. One more payment for some reason has not seemed to the
trustful Byelorussian ironic - the Nigerian partner asked to
deposit money to receive the inquiry confirming cleanliness of
the transaction.
They have extracted 600 thousand dollars in total from the
Byelorussian. He visited even London in order, as it seemed to
him, to sign a paper about an investment of the next large
portion of money in solid lawyer office and to receive the
certificate that he shortly becomes the owner of ten millions
dollars.
Even when suspicions appeared at the deceived Byelorussian, and
he went to police, he hoped nevertheless to get promised money.
In the other case, as the fly was a message how to get a prize
in a lottery. The Belarus women in Minsk, Brest and Grodno
swallowed it. It was possible to receive a prize in 50 thousand
dollars only after payment of services of the lawyer and cost of
translation 5 thousand dollars sum total. It is not necessary to
mention, that there were not any lotteries, so money have gone
to a pocket of swindlers!
The essence of all frauds a similar sorts - they propose to
people big money, loans, payments or a prize which is very
difficult to refuse. Therefore, it’s more difficult then to find
swindlers who use anonymous bank accounts and Internet
addresses. Moreover, it is practically impossible to return
money at all, because swindlers are hiding behind various legal
subtleties.
According to the employee of a department of high technologies
of the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs Andrey
Miklashevich, before the messages of swindlers could get without
effort in your postbox, now they are as easy catching the
victims by e-mail. The letter you are not waiting for, more
known as a spam, it is not necessary even to open, moreover not
to read them or to answer for suspicious offers. Fooled
foreigners Byelorussians use high technologies for swindle as
much as foreigners do. They still could buy trustful foreign
citizens on favorable offers of sale of the fictional goods on
the largest Internets auctions such as E-buy.
They do efficient correspondence with the potential buyer,
receive an advance payment for the goods even unsent by mail,
and then simply disappear. The sums they receive are not so
large, about thousand dollars (for example, cost of second-hand
Notebook), but they are rather regular.
Probably, foreigners do not guess even, that the swindler can
easily buy a rating of the carried out successful sales, as well
as compliment responses. Moreover, if there are engaged in a
deceit some persons it does not effort at all. One more popular
way how the swindlers from Belarus extract money from rich
foreigners is scamming. Foreign fianc?s are victims in this
case. A fly is brilliant appearance of attractive young women
with offers of a hand and heart, which are on every possible
Internets sites of dating. Photos are another’s as a rule. Some
groups of swindlers that are take up scamming, do not include
girls at all.
The swindlers have full arrangements of letters and answers to
letters practically for all occasions. They ask money from
foreigners on the ticket to see the fianc?e or on recovery of
own health or health of suddenly and hardly fallen ill relative,
for whom expensive medicines are necessary. If “girl” writes,
that “there is nothing to eat”, it is possible, that she or he
goes for a drive in the evenings on expensive car and looks a
lullaby before dream on the plasma TV.
According to Andrey Miklashevich, it is very difficult to prove,
that similar money extraction is swindle. Scamming girl approve,
that she is kind and fluffy and cannot simply find her missing
heart.
In the near future the next plans on the fraud of trustful
citizens will appear. Swindlers as well as other social groups
in a society make the certain percent of users of a network.
There are a lot of them or a little is difficult to say, but in
sight, the Belarus computer detectives have more than 500
people.