More than 20 cyber crime cases opened in Armenia since beginning of this year
15.04.2013,
18:52
YEREVAN, April 15. /ARKA/. More than 20 cyber crime cases have been opened in Armenia since the beginning of this year, Andrey Yashchyan, senior specialist at the cyber crime unit of the Armenian Police Department’s division in charge of organized crimes, said today at a news conference.
YEREVAN, April 15. /ARKA/. More than 20 cyber crime cases have been opened in Armenia since the beginning of this year, Andrey Yashchyan, senior specialist at the cyber crime unit of the Armenian Police Department’s division in charge of organized crimes, said today at a news conference.
He told journalists that these offences are different – they ranged from stealing personal profile data in social networks to grave cyber crimes and stealing money.
Yashchyan said that 40 cyber crimes were committed in 2012.
He said that there were many blackmailers who demanded money for not revealing private information.
In particular, one user of Odnoklassniki social network went connected with some females via a false profile and demanded AMD 200,000 from each of them threatening to reveal reputation-tarnishing information about them to their friends and relatives.
“We found the wrongdoer – it was an inmate at Hrazdan city’s penitentiary,” Yashchyan said. “It was also become known about other cases of blackmailing from AMD 50,000 to 30,000.”
Another blackmailer demanded $2,000 from a woman, which complied with his demand and paid him the money.
There was also another case – an offender was stealing personal data of the same social network users, creating a master copy in Odnoklassniki social network. He redirected the users to their personal pages, preserving their personal data – logins and passwords and demanded AMD 16,000 from them.
Yashchyan said that many complaints come to the police about stealing data and photos or libelous statements about them.
He said that on May 18, 2010, articles 135 and 136 (Slander and Insult) were voided in the Penal Code, but now they are in the Civil Code. These provisions state that slanderers and insulters must pay AMD 2 million fine. --0---