Overview
- Specialized cybercrime prosecutors in Lima Centro secured convictions against a network that copied a bank’s site to steal credentials and move funds.
- Caretas reports effective prison terms including 11 years and 8 months for alleged ringleader Nils Alvarado, eight-year terms for two accomplices, and three-year sentences for others, plus civil reparations of S/5,000 to the bank and S/8,500 to a victim company.
- Diario UNO reports a separate set of six convictions with Juan Zamora receiving four years and eight months of effective prison and five others receiving three-year suspended terms.
- Investigators detailed phishing that captured card numbers, CVV codes, passwords, DNI data, and phone numbers, followed by remote-access takeovers of victims’ computers to execute transfers.
- Prosecutors said the group operated from Pucallpa, recruited recipient “mule” accounts in Lima, and siphoned up to USD 59,060 from a company, with some defendants accepting expedited plea procedures.