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Man Arrested for Phishing Over $100 Million from Google and Facebook

posted by martyb on Saturday April 29 2017, @10:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-hack-anybody-who-is-really-good-at-search dept.
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takyon writes:

Google and Facebook have confirmed that they were the victims of a major phishing scam:

Last month, the Department of Justice charged a Lithuanian man for fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering after documents revealed he scammed two major tech companies for over $100 million by masquerading as a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer. A Fortune report this week identified those two affected companies as Facebook and Google.

Both companies confirmed to Fortune that their employees were victims of the phishing scam, where the perpetrator — 48-year-old Evaldas Rimasauskas — forged email addresses, invoices, and contracts to swindle Facebook and Google into paying for electronic supplies. The payments were deposited into bank accounts in Latvia, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Slovenia, Hungary, and Lithuania.

From the March 21st DoJ press release, which didn't name the two companies:

Acting U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim said: "From half a world away, Evaldas Rimasauskas allegedly targeted multinational internet companies and tricked their agents and employees into wiring over $100 million to overseas bank accounts under his control. This case should serve as a wake-up call to all companies – even the most sophisticated – that they too can be victims of phishing attacks by cyber criminals. And this arrest should serve as a warning to all cyber criminals that we will work to track them down, wherever they are, to hold them accountable..."

Also at BBC.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by art guerrilla on Saturday April 29 2017, @02:47PM (3 children)

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Saturday April 29 2017, @02:47PM (#501552)

    crime does pay ? ? ?
    seems to be what every thing indicates...
    just make sure it is legal crime...

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday April 29 2017, @03:46PM (1 child)

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday April 29 2017, @03:46PM (#501560) Journal

      Not really.The long arm of U.S. law picked this guy up in Lithuania.

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      • (Score: 2) by Scrutinizer on Saturday April 29 2017, @10:07PM

        by Scrutinizer (6534) on Saturday April 29 2017, @10:07PM (#501688)

        [crime doesn't really pay]. The long arm of U.S. law picked this guy up in Lithuania.

        How many years of your life would you spend in exchange for $100 million US dollars? I personally remember a time when I spent about one year of my life (~8,700 hours) for about $80,000...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @05:21AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @05:21AM (#501795)

      All government is theft. Get it, yet?

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 29 2017, @03:50PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 29 2017, @03:50PM (#501562) Journal

    Google can't be scammed like this. Fake news.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @05:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @05:28AM (#502691)

    If he'd donated some of the proceedings to say EFF and ACLU he'd be a super hero.

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