Two residents of Milicz—a mother and daughter—reported to the County Police Headquarters that they had fallen victim to fraud.
According to information provided by the victims, an unknown man called one of them and, claiming to be a police officer from the National Police Headquarters, told her that someone had hacked into her bank account.
The caller demanded that the Milicz resident immediately help him apprehend the person who had hacked into the bank account. At the fraudster’s instruction, the woman gave him the login and password for her bank account.
The woman’s daughter acted similarly. The supposed officer asked to speak to her immediately after finishing the conversation with her mother. She too, convinced that she was speaking to a genuine police officer, gave him the details needed to log in to her bank account, which someone had allegedly hacked.
Unfortunately, later that same day both women realized that they had been defrauded. A total of nearly PLN 35,000 had disappeared from their bank accounts.
Milicz police officers began investigating the case immediately after the fraud was reported. They carried out a series of procedural and operational activities, which enabled them to identify the potential perpetrators. Joint operations with officers from the Cybercrime Division of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Wrocław led to the arrest of two residents of Ruda Śląska, aged 27 and 41.
After their arrest, the men were taken to the County Police Headquarters in Milicz, where they were questioned as suspects. The younger suspect—whose apartment contained, among other things, banking documents belonging to various people and several SIM cards probably used in the scheme—was charged with fraud.
His older associate is suspected of aiding the crime. Investigators established that he opened a bank account in his own name and made it available to his younger colleague for a small fee. The perpetrator transferred the money extorted from the Milicz residents to this account.
Both suspects could now face up to eight years in prison. By court decision, the 27-year-old has been temporarily detained for three months.