The expert spoke about fraud schemes using drops

Drops are one of the most important elements of cybercriminals or money laundering schemes, Alexander Vurasco, Director of Development at the Solar AURA External Digital Threat Monitoring Center, Solar Group, told Izvestia.

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"The term "drops" more or less includes people who receive a bundle of bank cards and go to cash them out, and those who register cards for themselves and then transfer them to intruders for a fee, and the so-called "fillers" who accept illegal payments to their card and then transfer money. further," explained Vurasco.

According to him, drops are necessary for conducting any illegal financial transactions on the Internet.

"Scammers need them to accept transfers from victims or owners of illegal online casinos. At the same time, many hundreds of drops are needed to implement large criminal schemes, so the demand for them in the criminal world is extremely high," the expert noted.

Vurasko added that amendments have been included in criminal legislation over the past 10 years, as a result of which responsibility has been introduced for drops: from entering unreliable persons into registers to initiating criminal cases.

Alexey Gavrishev, lawyer and managing partner of AVG Legal, clarified that the drop could face criminal liability under articles on the sale of criminally acquired property and for the legalization (laundering) of illegally obtained money.

"The first is punishable by a fine, the second by imprisonment of up to 2 years. As a rule, providing your card is considered only complicity, not execution, so the penalties are many times less. Nevertheless, this does not exempt from liability at all, and the funds received in this way are fully recoverable through civil proceedings," he stressed.

As the chairman of the bar association "Your legal attorney" Konstantin Trapaidze noted, much depends on the intention of the person.

"If the person who transmits such information to fraudsters is aware of what this data will be used for and understands the existence of criminal intent, then they are responsible for the fraud committed, but not as direct perpetrators, but as accomplices," Trapaidze explained.

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