The head of the FBI almost became a victim of Internet managers

According to The Washington Post , the head of the FBI said, referring to the meeting participants that, as a result of the largest special operation of the FBI against the Internet, 33 people were arrested in California, Nevada and North Carolina.

According to the indictment, the criminal group consisting of US and Egypt citizens organized a phishing scheme with which it gained illegal access to the logs and passwords of the Wells Fargo and Bank of America. After withdrawing money from the bills of victims, they transferred them to accounts opened in the United States by American members of the group.

As an example, illustrating the insidiousness of criminals, Muller said that he himself almost became a victim of such fraud, and scammers used a simple and widely known way to get access to his account. “A letter from his bank” came to his email address with a request to confirm the details of his bank account, namely the login and password.

According to him, the letter seemed to him worthy of confidence and he began to follow the instructions on the fake site, which was indicated in the message, but then he realized that he was mistaken.

Changing the passwords on his account, Muller tried to explain to his wife that this case was a great opportunity to study, but his wife did not share his optimism, saying that in addition to training, it was about their savings and forbade him to use the later services of Internet banking.

Müller’s commentary on the dangers of banking service via the Internet contradicts the statement of the former director of the Cyber ​​Security Department of the FBI James Finch, who stated that he was not going to abandon the convenient Internet banking, despite all the attempts of criminals to turn him away from this.