The prosecution is seeking a 10-year prison sentence for a Nigerian hacker on charges of computer fraud after he managed to extract 25,000 euros from a business via email.
Nigerian SN was denounced by citizen EB, who has been running his detergent business importing from Italy to Sauk for 10 years. For years, he had been communicating with the Italian party via an email address, where he would place the order and, after receiving the goods, send them a bank transfer.
One day, he received an email from the Italian party requesting that the payment be made no longer to the company's account in Italy but to Germany with the relevant invoice. The complainant, seeing that the email was the same (it was later determined that only one letter had changed) and that the exact invoice of the Italian company sent in previous electronic communications was there, and knowing that they were a multinational company, made the payment.
After some time, he was contacted by the Italian company after they had not received the amount of 25,000 euros, from which he realized that he had made the payment to another address.
The investigation revealed that the beneficiary was citizen SN, and that he committed the criminal activity of "Computer Fraud" by embezzling the amount of 25,000 euros from the victim.
The mechanism of this computer fraud, which has managed to defraud several businesses in Albania, was also discovered. The prosecution discovered that emails and company websites with low levels of protection or simple passwords were hacked by international hackers who track these websites and conversations related to bill payments and money transfers destined from within to outside the territory of the Republic of Albania.
Then, they enter into communications with businesses by presenting themselves as the suppliers of the goods. They do this by opening similar pages and similar email addresses and, to make themselves credible, they refer to previous conversations made by the entities with real suppliers via telematics (these hacked conversations). Once they become credible, they issue management justifications and request that payments be made to other accounts, embezzling all payments from businesses, who think they are paying their partner.
