The number of cybercrime has increased in a worrying way in Venezuela, according to the director of the Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigations Corps, Douglas Rico.

During a television interview on November 7, Rico highlighted that cybercriminals use common but improved methods to attract their victims, such as fraudulent messages and phone calls.

The CICPC is working to reduce cybercrime, which, according to the official, has been increasing since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Rico warns citizens to be alert to any suspicious call in which they are asked for personal data, bank accounts and other applications, since they could violate their privacy.

If in doubt, Rico advises not to provide information and if you are the victim of a cyberscam, go and file a complaint with the CICPC.

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This Monday, September 2, the Anti-Terrorist Court of Venezuela issued an arrest warrant against former presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, of the opposition, and commissioned the CICPC to carry out the procedure.

According to the order published by the Public Ministry on his account on the social network Instagram, Urrutia would have incurred crimes such as “usurpation of functions, provided for and sanctioned in article 213, forging of public documents, provided for and sanctioned in article 319, incitement to disobedience of laws, provided for and sanctioned in article 283, conspiracy, provided for and sanctioned in article 132, all of the Penal Code, sabotage, system damage, provided for and sanctioned in article 7 of the computer crime law, association, provided for and sanctioned in article 37 of the organic law against organized crime and financing of terrorism.”

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In Venezuela, the increase in crimes against citizens who agree to transactions through sales web pages is notorious. In this regard, this week the head of the CICPC Computer Expertise Division, Pascual González, issued an alert to the population.

González indicated that the number of criminal acts is increasing “through the Marketplace e-commerce page and the theft of personal information by the WhatsApp instant messaging application.”

From the Computer Division of the police force, they indicated that the cases began to grow at the beginning of 2020, for which they have continued to investigate sales, particularly through Marketplace, which is operated from the Facebook social network.

This portal preferentially offers vehicles at very tempting prices, below the market. Cybercriminals and organized gangs are presumably behind such offers. In this sense, Pascual González recommends not “negotiating vehicles that are below the price or going to the site where they are quoted.” On the contrary, it urges citizens to go to the CICPC headquarters so that they can provide them with the necessary help.

Regarding the theft of information through WhatsApp, the modality used is a telephone call to the user, from national or international numbers, to ask them to deliver a verification code from this social network that reaches their phone. By doing so, attackers gain illegal access to WhatsApp and steal data or demand ransom money.

It is important to highlight that due to this increase in crimes linked to sales web pages, the CICPC’s Division of Computer Expertise created the web page https://delitosinformaticos.cicpc.gob.ve/, “in order for citizens to can report and request advice on this type of crime committed through various digital platforms.” There they highlight tips, prevention measures, information on new technological modalities of cybercriminals, in addition to the procedures to make complaints if necessary.

M.Pino

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La entrada Authorities warn of an increase in crimes linked to sales sites in Venezuela apareció primero en Bitfinance.

A man was recently arrested in Venezuela for allegedly carrying out scams using a cryptocurrency of his own creation, called Petro Oro 5.0.

The Corps of Scientific, Penal and Criminalistic Investigations of Venezuela (CICPC), indicated on social networks that the man was captured in Caracas, after the crime in question had been verified.

Douglas Rico, director of the police force, indicated that “In favor of strengthening the Peace Quadrants, the CICPC will continue to attend to each space, each technological platform, each technical-scientific investigation, for which officials from the Computer Crime Investigations Division, They arrested a man in the vicinity of Plaza Bolívar, Santa Teresa parish, Libertador municipality, Caracas, after verifying that he was engaged in fraud through the sale of cryptocurrencies.”

The subject in question was identified as José Flores Tachau, 32, who used posts on social networks as a modus operandi, where he indicated that he belonged to the company Fintech Del Alba, CA, for which he presented a project called Petro Oro 5.0.

The case was made available to the Second Prosecutor’s Office of the Public Ministry of the Metropolitan Area of ​​Caracas.

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La entrada Venezuelan authorities catch cryptocurrency scammer apareció primero en Bitfinance.

The Venezuelan Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations Corps (CICPC in Spanish) announced the arrest of a group of criminals who operated within the state of Monagas and were dedicated to stealing cryptocurrencies from retired workers of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).

Douglas Rico, national director of the CICPC, reported through his Instagram network that three citizens who made up the gang “Los Crackers de Oriente” and various equipment used in criminal operations were captured.

The members of the gang frequently entered the “accounts of retired PDVSA workers to steal the cryptocurrencies that the victims had in the Patria application, a platform that works as a wallet for the national crypto asset El Petro.”

Sophisticated method to get the passwords

A PDVSA worker reported the disappearance of his funds from the Patria wallet and the authorities of the CICPC Computer Crimes Division carried out the corresponding investigations, detecting that the fraudsters obtained the private keys of the users and entered the accounts of the homeland platform.

Once they managed to enter, they transferred the cryptocurrencies by falsifying the identity documents, later, the hackers exchanged the cryptoactives for bolivars that they transferred to their personal bank accounts.

The director of the institution did not reveal how the cybercriminals managed to access the private keys of those affected.

It should be noted that the information indicated that some deceased retirees were also victims of this gang of fraudsters, which suggests that they had access to the database of the workers of the state oil company.

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La entrada Crypto scam to PDVSA retirees apareció primero en Bitfinance.

Four people were recently detained by the Venezuelan authorities, in Carabobo state, for being allegedly linked to cryptocurrency scams. It was indicated by the director of the Scientific, Criminal Investigations Corps (CICPC), Douglas Rico on the social network Instagram.

The detainees are at the order of the Public Ministry with the accusation of counterfeiting and fraud with cryptocurrencies. The official reported that the citizens are part of a criminal gang called “The Counterfeiters of Cryptoassets” and legally represent a company linked to the ecosystem of cryptoassets.

According to the information provided by Rico, the alleged fraudsters “introduced a false registration authorization in order to obtain capital through advice and deceit third parties” and carried out their activities “through the Telegram messaging application.”

Other crimes related to cryptocurrencies

This is not the only case that has been registered in Venezuela related to cryptocurrency scams. During 2021, the Venezuelan authorities have registered several events, and according to the firm Chainalysis, it is the seventh nation with the highest adoption of cryptocurrencies.

One of the cases reported by authorities occurred last October when the CICPC arrested two men for defrauding $ 133,000 through the bitcoin exchange Binance. Another similar event occurred, last May, when the judicial body arrested two citizens for defrauding $ 130,000 on the LocalBitcoins platform.

While in June another citizen was also captured for allegedly appropriating 7.9 Bitcoins, equivalent, at that time, to more than $ 300,000.

Due to the boom that this type of event has been registering, within the Caribbean country, the CICPC director urges the community to use “regular and previously verified channels to trade crypto assets, always safeguarding integrity and using platforms that guarantee security.”

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La entrada Venezuelan authorities detain alleged cryptocurrency scammers apareció primero en Bitfinance.

The director of the Scientific and Criminal Investigations Corps (Cicpc), Douglas Rico, reported on the arrest of two subjects in the State of Guárico, Venezuela, related to a cryptocurrency scam.

Officials attached to the municipal delegation of San Juan de los Morros arrested the two subjects who were engaged in fraud and fraud with crypto assets through the cryptocurrency exchange application Binance.

The security forces identified those arrested as 21-year-old Leonardo Manuel Rodríguez Bolívar and 27-year-old Aarón Sinahe Yépez Paredes, who were involved in the cryptocurrency scam, as can be read in the official’s account.

Rico pointed out a third subject of the criminal gang named Wilker Alfredo Hernández Bolívar, 20 years old, “who is wanted and requested for various dishonest crimes and apparently is the one who engaged in the illegal transactions of the criminal gang for the purchases of crypto assets on the Binance platform.”

As described by the director of the Cicpc, the modus operandi consisted on  the victims “receiving the alleged payments for the purchase of the cryptocurrencies and the people affected once they realized that said transaction was blocked, they were unable to identify the person who had already made the transaction”.

At the time of the capture of the two subjects, they found in his possession 1,133 dollars that came from the scams they carried out, a laptop where they made their transactions and two mobile phones; which will be subjected to computer expertise to determine the modus operandi of this criminal gang that used the asset purchase platform to commit crimes and enrich themselves illegally.

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La entrada Binance scam leads to arrest of two people in Venezuela apareció primero en Bitfinance.

The Computer Crimes Division of the Scientific Criminal and Criminal Investigations Corps (CICPC in Spanish) and the National Superintendency of Crypto Assets and Related Activities (Sunacrip) issued a warning to Venezuelan citizens to avoid being victims of fraud with digital currencies.

The CICPC division, through its account on the social network Instagram, warned about the existence of “false managers who only seek their own profit on the Patria platform and other electronic channels.” They completed the information with a series of recommendations to increase security.

Venezuelan institutions urged all Venezuelans not to share their personal data and to allow other people to carry out financial transactions with them. “We invite all those who handle crypto assets to make their movements through exchange houses authorized by Sunacrip.”

The exhortation of both institutions is framed within the policies that the State has been implementing to normalize economic activities related to cryptocurrencies, petro and digital mining.

Actions against organized criminals

Joselit Ramírez, Sunacrip National Superintendent, recently announced the signing of an agreement with the National Office Against Organized Crime and Terrorism Financing (Oncdoft) that aims to prevent the “misuse of digital platforms for illicit purposes”, and thus “strengthen the fight against organized crime and money laundering.”

On the other hand, Sunacrip is developing events throughout the national territory in order to promote proximity between the nation’s security forces and other institutions to to facilitate the coordination of actions on digital mining in the country.

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La entrada CICPC and Sunacrip warn of digital fraud apareció primero en Bitfinance.

The Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigations Corps (CICPC) is following in the footsteps of a 23-year-old Venezuelan for having simulated a kidnapping, and having also obtained funds in bitcoin.

The citizen Andrés Jesús Dos Santos Hernández is being sought by the authorities for having also stolen $ 1,150,000 in bitcoin, according to the director of the organization, Douglas Rico.

“Andrés Jesús Dos Santos Hernández (23) is wanted for money laundering and scam. He affected the economic assets of the victims for being a financial operator of the virtual currency Bitcoin,” said Douglas Rico, director of the body in his account in the social network Instagram.

The subject simulated a kidnapping where his captors allegedly forced him to enter the Binance platform. They would then have “forced” him to make transfers to different digital wallets, depleting all of the crypto assets in bitcoin.

K. Tovar

Source: Doble Llave

La entrada Venezuelan police are looking for a young man for theft of bitocoins apareció primero en Bitfinance.