türkçe links to original Turkish article
(Hürriyet Newspaper, 5 January 2022)
twitch swindle click here for previous TNT reporting
on this topic.
They're all afflicted with the same twitch.
After claims that there have been more than $10 million worth of
frauds committed on the social media platform Twitch, a "Clean
Twitch" campaign was initiated. In a 125GB trove of documents,
how Twitch swindlers made money and the astonishing donations
the received were revealed.
CHP (opposition party) Parliamentarian Gürsel Tekin brought the
matter to the attention of the Parliament and the Treasury and Finance
Ministries, prompting the Istanbul public prosecutor to start an
investigation. As a result, 'Jahrein' (a.k.a. Ahmet Sonuç), who raised
this issue on social media, was consulted by police.
Yesterday, in simultaneous raids in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Antalya,
Muğla, Aydın, Eskişehir, Kocaeli, Balıkesir, Manisa and Denizli
police took 38 people, six of them children (!), into custody. Among
those arrested were Twitch 'broadcasters' Sude E., Figen B., Dilara T.
and Muhammed I. The charges included "hiding the value of income
derived from a crime" and "seizing the bank or credit cards of another
and deriving benefit from them."
Police determined that fraud gangs made deals with some Twitch
'broadcasters' to obtain credit card information from their fans, who
made 'donations'. With the stolen credit card information Bitcoins were
purchased via Twitch. The 'broadcasters' took a percentage of the
donations and sent the remainder to the fraud gangs' crypto accounts.
In this way, a fraud of about $10 million was committed.
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