Currently we are not able to ascertain how much of the civilian population who are fooled by them, but we estimate the number of victims as much as hundreds of thousands of people.Madrid (Reuters)-European anti crime Agency (Europol) managed to capture a group of members of the network of internet scams claiming to be anti-European criminal bodies when performing the action.
The Group was reported to have collected millions euros two years doing fraud action.
Fraud network mode that works in 30 countries that is to paralyze the computer with a virus and send messages that seem to come from the body such as Europol or anti criminal police to the owner of the targeted computer.
In the message, the owner of the computer is required to pay an amount of money if you want to access is restored.
"Currently we are not able to ascertain how much of the civilian population who are fooled by them, but we estimate the number of victims as much as hundreds of thousands of people," said Europol Director Rob Wainwright in a press conference in Madrid, Wednesday.
"If we assume that the average amount to be paid is 100 euros and as much as three percent of computer owners fooled by that message, then we estimate total losses reaching millions of euros," he said.
Wainwright himself claimed that his name has been used by a network of fraudsters to confuse internet users.
The Virus is known by the name of "Ransomware" and have mutated as much as 48 times to penetrate the defenses of anti-virus software.
The leader of a network of fraudsters is a 27 year old nation Russia and successfully arrested on last December in the United Arab Emirates, said Deputy Foreign Minister of Spain for security, Francisco Martinez, in equal opportunities.
Police arrested 10 members of the network in Spain in the last week in the southern region of Spain, Costa del Sol, which is popular with tourists.
Six of the detainees came from Russia, two from Ukraine and two other nation of Georgia. Most of them are in charge of conducting money-laundering and send the results to Russia.
While group leaders are responsible to develop the fraudster virus.
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