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Currently, the spread of theft in banking activities using electronic computers (computers) or computer networks. This type of theft is characterized by the fact that criminals, taking advantage of the service opportunity for illegal access to computer information of a financial nature, concentrated in the computer centers of banking institutions, and discovering gaps in the activities of audit services, carry out criminal operations with the specified information located in a computer or on machine media. : introduce distortions, incorrect (falsified) data into the program output data of the computer with their subsequent use for theft; establish a code for computer penetration into the electronic payment network of card settlements; they create duplicates of payment cards, sometimes they even model the accounting system of a bank or other organization, etc. In some cases, penetration into computer networks and access to the necessary information is carried out using various “bugs” and other technical means. As a result, criminals are able to withdraw cash from clients’ computer accounts in rubles and foreign currencies.
The commission of these crimes is also preceded by a certain preparation, the nature of which depends on the degree of connection of the offenders with the activities of the bank’s computer center. Unauthorized persons think over ways to access a computer system, try to find out passwords and program keys. Programmers, operators and other employees of the computer center and other divisions of the bank, plotting such a scam, choose the most favorable environment for its commission, can create a front company with a current account to transfer stolen money, etc.
A criminal action, in fact, consists of the beginning of contact actions of the offender with a computer or machine carriers and the removal of the necessary information or money from the electronic accounts of bank customers, their direct appropriation or transfer to the accounts of “fake” organizations.
What to do if you are faced with crimes of this kind? Our specialists – computer detectives, who will professionally and promptly conduct computer investigations and protect you from relapse can come to your aid.
