“Happy” fraudsters were arrested/ 2 billion tomans fraud from 100 people

According to the report of Fars news agency’s police reporter, the head of FATA police in Greater Tehran announced the identification and arrest of 2 internet fraudsters who were defrauding citizens with unauthorized access to user accounts.

Colonel Davoud Moazzami Gudarzi, Chief of FATA Police in Greater Tehran, in an interview with the police reporter of Fars News Agency, explaining the details of the above news, stated: Following the referral of several citizens to the capital FATA Police regarding unauthorized access to their user accounts on the Telegram social network and fraud from Their contacts were specially included in the agenda of FATA police in the capital.

The head of FATA police in the capital city stated: FATA police experts have started their specialized measures and in the initial investigation it was found that the criminals created several accounts on the Shad network with the name of the backup operator, sent a message titled delete the user account to users and encouraged people. to send the 5-digit code that is sent to them via SMS to the support to confirm their identity.

Col. Gudarzi added: After the users of the Shaad educational network – who are generally teenagers – sent the code to the thieves, these fraudsters, with unauthorized access to the Telegram social network, started to defraud Shakat contacts by abusing their phone numbers and identities.

Pointing out that this case has had more than 100 complainants and the number of complaints is still increasing, this police official said: The cyber officers of FATA Capital Police succeeded in finding the accused by examining all aspects of the case and using technical and scientific methods. The cyberspace identified and after the judicial formalities, both criminals were arrested in their hiding place on the outskirts of Tehran and transferred to the FATA police along with the electronic equipment.

The head of FATA police in the capital pointed out that this gang had defrauded more than 20 billion Rials. These criminals had taken advantage of the lack of knowledge of some of the users of the Shad educational network, who were more than teenagers, to carry out their criminal actions and their lives Many citizens were made playthings for their sinister purposes.

Referring to the need to enable two-step password verification for social network user accounts, Colonel Gudarzi advised citizens to observe security and privacy settings while working on social networks and refrain from sharing their user account information with others. .

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