20-year-old Holon Resident Charged With Credit Card Fraud And Bank Account Hacking

[✨ Megiddo]

The Cybersecurity Department of the State Attorney's Office yesterday, March 16, filed an indictment in the Rishon LeZion Magistrates' Court against 20-year-old Yarin Yemin from Holon for credit card fraud and bank account hacking.

According to the facts of the indictment filed by lawyer Shir Ben Ami, in recent months the defendant himself and together with others committed a number of fraudulent acts against various individuals and a large number of business owners.

Among other things, he made 114 purchases and purchase attempts at various companies using the Isracard widget - not through an account he owns. The cost of the fraud is estimated at NIS 98,550 and the fraud attempt is valued at NIS 38,300.

To connect to the Isracard widget, the responder must enter a verification code sent by the credit card company to the cardholder's number. Alternatively, the defendant contacted the communications companies of the debit card holders, falsely identified himself as a credit card holder, and requested that calls and messages be forwarded to the SIM card numbers he received in advance.

In addition, the defendant logged into various bank accounts in order to transfer funds from these accounts. As part of the attempts to transfer money, the defendant had to enter a verification code sent as an SMS message to the mobile phone of the account holder. In order to successfully complete the procedure, the respondent contacted the account holders' telecom operators, falsely introduced himself as the bank account holder, and asked that calls and messages be forwarded to the SIM numbers previously obtained by him. According to the indictment, the defendant obtained the data for logging into Leumi's bank accounts by performing "phishing" operations.

Thus, the defendant created a website posing as the legitimate website of Bank Leumi and designed the website in such a way that it resembled the front page of the legitimate website of Bank Leumi. Defendant even used debit cards at various companies for telephone transactions without the knowledge or consent of the cardholders.

Simultaneously with the filing of charges, the prosecutor sought the detention of the accused until the end of the trial against him and emphasized the systematic and extensive nature of the victims and potential victims as a result of his activities.
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