www.getsafeonline.org
Whoever you are, whatever you do…
YOU could be a victim of online crime.
IN PRISON
IN PRISON
WANTED
Type of scam: Phishing scam
Type of scam: Phishing scam
Type of scam: Hacking
Names of criminals: Inout Caraman,
Adrian Iorgovean and Sunday Godday Etu.
Name of criminal: Olajide Onikoyi, 29,
of Hexagon Close, Blackley, Manchester.
Sentence: Total of 20 years combined
in prison.
Sentence: Nearly four years in prison.
Name of criminal: Evgeniy Mikhailovich
Bogachev, a Russian hacker believed to
be behind the Gameover Zeus banking
trojan, has been placed on the FBI’s most
wanted list. Bogachev, also known as
‘lucky12345’, ‘slavik’ and ‘Pollingsoon’,
is wanted for involvement in a multimillion pound hacking ring.
Organisation: When police seized
Onikoyi’s computer, they found chat logs
from cyber crime forums that revealed he
was conspiring with others from Russia,
Lithuania and the UK in order to
compromise computers and associated
bank accounts. A number of other people
have also been jailed over the scam.
Affected: 30,000 bank customers –
12,500 of which were in the UK and
70 million customer email addresses
to be used in phishing scams. Evidence
presented by the Financial Fraud Bureau
shows that up to £59m worth of fraud
from the UK victims alone was prevented
by the trio’s conviction.
Affected: Onikoyi laundered £393,000
from 238 victims in total, with one alone
having £19,000 taken from their account.
Sentence: Still on the run
Affected: He is wanted for his alleged
role developing and distributing the Zeus
banking trojan, which has infected as
many as one million computers worldwide. To date, the Gameover Zeus virus
has stolen hundreds of millions of dollars.
IN PRISON
IN PRISON
IN PRISON
Type of scam: Fraud
Type of scam: Dating scam
Type of scam: internet crime
Names of criminals: Yuriy Konovalenko
and Yevhen Kulibaba (Ukranian gang)
ran a highly sophisticated fraud which
attacked the banking accounts of
hundreds of online customers (in UK),
Scotland Yard said.
Names of criminals: Part of a global
gang - Brothers Minhaj Uddin, and
Muhiudd Jaber were involved in the scam.
Names of criminals: Nicholas Webber,
Gary Kelly, Ryan Thomas. Three
teenagers (one public school) behind
12 million pound bank scam.
Sentence: Uddin sentenced for 16
months, Jaber for two years.
Affected: The dating scam was one of
a series of schemes which raked in
more than £750,000 from at least 70
victims - all of them living abroad.
Sentence: Four and a half years each.
Affected: The gang siphoned £3m from
bank accounts by “infecting” computers.
Sentence: Webber (Five years), Kelly
(Five years), Thomas (Four years).
Affected: Set up Internet Crime Forum
for £12m bank scam.
Half
50%
£670
Over half
53%
of victims have felt
‘very’ or ‘extremely
violated’ by their
ordeal
million
reported online
frauds in one year
of the population now
see online crimes as
seriously as ‘physical
world’ crimes
£
More cybercrime
victims than ever
Over half
51% 32%
54%
although only
have been a victim
of online crime
wish to unmask
a perpetrator
but just
14%
SUCCEED
Victims changing
online behaviour
Nearly half
Around half
47%
of victims did not
know who to report
an online crime to
of these
victims reported
the crime
45%
opting for stronger
passwords and
No password or pin
More than half
54%
of mobile phone users
and around a third
37%
42%
being extra vigilant
when shopping
online
of laptop owners do not
have password or PIN
number for their device
That figure rises to over half
59% 67%
and two thirds
for PC users
of tablet owners
5 Simple Steps to Get Safe Online
1. Put a Pin on It
2. Look for the Padlock
Put a different password or pin on every
phone, computer, website and social
media account you have. Make it hard to
guess, and never share it with anyone.
Always check for the padlock symbol
in the web browser whenever you shop
or bank online, and make sure the web
address begins with https://
3. Secure your Wi-Fi
4.Log-Out/Log-Off
Make sure your home Wi-Fi is protected by
password, and never use unsecured Wi-Fi
hotspots when you are out and about
Always log out of all your accounts when
you are finished with them and log off your
computer when you’ve finished using it
This is very important. Report online fraud cases to
5. Report It
www.getsafeonline.org
www.actionfraud.police.uk
report online abuse to your local police.
This way we can make the internet safer for all.