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Hackers are sending fake subpoenas on behalf of the police, BNT reports.

To make them appear authentic, names of magistrates and policemen are mentioned in them.

This type of fraud has been active since 2021. One of the fake subpoenas was detected in November last year.

Police insignia were used, as well as a forged signature of the director of the National Police.

Fraudsters even threaten arrest.

In this case, the hackers come across a woman who works as a teacher.

It turns out that there were recordings of students on her computer that were made automatically by the system used during distance learning, and in the summer the woman lost her personal laptop on the Sofia-Burgas train.

The thought that someone might have misused the computer data scared the intended victim even more.

They arrested a man for extortion in the amount of BGN 186,000

Correspondence between the two parties followed.

Those posing as policemen explained that the punishment is up to 2 years in prison and a fine between 700,000 and 900,000 BGN.

However, the case could have been resolved in another way, without consequences - through an out-of-court settlement, in which they asked for 19,500 BGN.

"This is not a document that was issued by the Bulgarian National Police and the Bulgarian law enforcement authorities. This is something that does not give rise to any legal consequences. This largely creates a psychosis among people. The texts from the Criminal Code that are written inside this subpoena do not correspond of the crimes that are referred to in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Bulgaria," said Chief Commissioner Atanas Ilkov - Director of the National Police.

Similar frauds were detected as early as the end of 2021. Then the cyber department of the GDBOP established that the account from which the subpoenas were sent was located outside the territory of Bulgaria and the EU.

It was blocked, but the physical perpetrator was not found.

"There is no specific organization. The hackers randomly select thousands of e-mails. There are special lists with compromised databases. They take out only the Bulgarian e-mails. They send out tens of thousands of e-mails with similar text, hoping that someone will peck," said Vladimir Dimitrov - head of the unit " Cybercrime" GDBOP.

Cases related to the replacement of bank accounts in intercompany correspondence are also increasing.

The hottest scam right now is the cryptocurrency doubling and tripling traps through middlemen.

The goal is for victims to invest in platforms that eventually turn out to be fake and disappear.

Practice shows that arrests and court cases are rare.

The reason - in most cases hackers operate from countries outside the EU.

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