A 26-year-old woman was arrested in Thessaloniki – “Selling” love and made off with more than 300,000 euros

In the center of Thessaloniki, a 26-year-old woman was identified and arrested yesterday against whom two European arrest warrants were pending from the Austrian and Hungarian authorities, for the offenses of fraud, forgery and money laundering from criminal activities, from 2016 to 2021.

The 26-year-old woman, who is part of a criminal group, is accused of cyberattacks on companies and online fraud by creating fake social media profiles. Together with her accomplices they had managed to illegally extract 323,000 euros and transfer it to numerous bank accounts in Austria, Finland, Norway and China.

ELAS announcement in detail:

“The cooperation of police services at the European level, with the Austrian and Hungarian authorities, representatives of the ENFAST Network, police officers of the Directorate of International Police Cooperation of the A.E.A. and the Thessaloniki Security Directorate to be in constant and direct communication, resulted in the identification and arrest of an internationally persecuted person.

A special investigation team was immediately set up with police officers from the Search Department, who, as part of an organized operation, yesterday afternoon (02-09-2022), located in the wider area of ​​the city center and arrested a 26-year-old foreign woman, against whom two (2 ) European Arrest Warrants from the Austrian and Hungarian Authorities, respectively, for the offences, as the case may be, of fraud, forgery and money laundering, acts committed in the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021.
The 26-year-old woman, who, according to the investigations, is a member of a criminal group, is accused of:

• Cyberattacks on companies, where he sent fake emails with altered invoices, making money transfers to the ring’s online bank accounts. By intervening in electronic communication between two parties, he could extract or change information, thereby obtaining an illegal financial benefit (Business Email Compromise – BEC “Man in the middle MITM” method).
• Online scams by creating fake profiles on social media, pretending to have an urgent financial need under the pretense of love, while falsely promising a refund with interest, thus extracting sums of money from the victims (‘Love Scam – Romance Scam’ type of fraud).

The total amount of money she managed to illegally extract, together with her accomplices, amounts to (323,000) euros, which was transferred piecemeal to numerous bank accounts in Austria, Finland, Norway and China, issued by her or her mother using fake IDs.

The arrested person will be taken to the competent Prosecutor”.

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