Eight men have been jointly charged with the scam, which could result in a greatly increased sentence because it is related to the corona crisis.
It was in April last year that they sent an SMS to the citizen on Funen. The person in question was tricked into believing that the message was from the National Board of Health, according to the description in the indictment.
The victim logged on to a fake website with his NemID and also sent a photo of his key card.
The group then – according to the prosecution – gained access to the citizen’s accounts. And then it went from strength to strength. Loans were set up in the person’s name for the purchase of a computer and stereo system, and the bottom line is that several banks and loan companies suffered a loss of just over DKK 300,000.
The criminal maneuver is just one of a total of 185 cases in an indictment that has just been released.
The eight were part of “a criminal organization with a fixed hierarchy”, it is claimed.
The frauds total around DKK 45 million, a large part of which, however, were attempts.
The victims in the case live around the country.
In more than 20 public libraries, the so-called keyloggers were installed, which enabled the group to obtain deeply sensitive information about individuals’ NemID.
By ordering new key cards and by fishing these out of mailboxes, the group could – according to the prosecution’s claim – gain access to other people’s money.
Source: The Nordic Page