The Brazoria Cybercrime Conspiracy Multiple Arrests In Online Fraud Bust

 — fifteen charged in a brazoria county narcotics ring face detention hearings and potential life sentences if convicted for drug distribution. Codenamed first light, the operation officially concluded in november with the following results:  — yicheng zhang, 38, a chinese national and resident of temple city, california, was arrested yesterday in los angeles. “cryptocurrency investment scams exploit the borderless nature of virtual currency and online communications to defraud victims,” said deputy attorney general lisa monaco.  — washington (ap) — an international law enforcement team has arrested a chinese national and disrupted a major botnet that officials said he ran for nearly a decade, amassing at least $99 million in profits by reselling access to criminals who used it for identity theft, child exploitation, and financial fraud, including pandemic relief scams.

It was a significant breakthrough in the fight.  — romanian organized crime prosecutors arrested 90 members of a cybercrime group and charged them for online fraud on thursday. The group’s activities over the past two years targeted more than one thousand victims, many of them in the united states, and earned the gang more than $20 million.  — police have busted a cyber gang suspected of defrauding victims on an industrial scale, with detectives making scores of arrests around the world including london. As many as 70,000 uk victims.  — a zambian court has sentenced 22 chinese nationals to long prison terms for cybercrimes that included internet fraud and online scams targeting zambians and people from singapore, peru and the united arab emirates.  — the united states department of justice (doj) said a chinese national was arrested in an international operation on charges of creating and using malware that was used in cyber attacks,.  — police have taken down a gang accused of using a technology service that helped criminals use fraudulent text messages to steal from victims. They have arrested 37 people worldwide and are.