A Kyiv resident asked a military man for his phone and stole UAH 80,000 from his bank account

Law enforcement officers reported a Kyiv resident who asked a military man he knew for a phone, ostensibly to make a call, but in fact withdrew almost 80 thousand from his account via online banking. hryvnias.

The Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office reported this.

As the prosecutor's office said, the soldier, at the request of the 31-year-old attacker, gave him his phone, since they had known each other for a long time.

Having picked up the phone, the suspect changed the password for entering Internet banking. He transferred money from the soldier's account to the cards of his friends.

The cardholders did not know that a crime was being committed using their accounts. The suspect explained to them that he needed to use their accounts to get his salary.

Also, according to the prosecutor's office, the man topped up his mobile phone with the victim's card and paid at the gas station with it. In total, the attacker withdrew almost 80 thousand hryvnias from the soldier's account.

The Kyiv resident was reported as suspected under several articles of the Criminal Code – for theft, unauthorized interference with the work of online banking, and forgery of transfer documents and their use.