Russian Alexander Zhukov inflicted $ 7 million damage to advertisers in the United States using a “sophisticated scheme” of cyber fraud. This is reported by the Office of the Attorney for the District of New York. RIA News…
The prosecutor’s office said that the jury found Zhukov guilty of conspiracy to commit online fraud, committing it, conspiring to launder money and of the act itself.
The defense of the Russian citizen, whom the prosecutor’s office calls “the king of fraudsters”, in an interview with the agency, only confirmed that the jury had delivered a guilty verdict. “He was found guilty on all four counts,” said lawyer Zachary Margulis-Onuma.
Zhukov was accused of using bots and rented services to wind up views on sites on the Internet and under advertising publications, as well as collecting an overpriced fee for this. This scheme was used to wind up views, including on media sites.
According to the prosecution, after receiving funds for such activities from various companies, Zhukov laundered money and sent it to offshore banks around the world.
The prosecutor’s office believes that due to the actions of the Russian, companies from the digital advertising industry were deceived for more than seven million dollars. Zhukov himself noted that he does not consider his activities on the Internet illegal.
Earlier in May, a US court sentenced Russian Cyril Firsov, accused of cybercrimes. He will be imprisoned for 30 months. From October 2013 until Firsov’s arrest in March 2020, about three thousand stores with a turnover of $ 17 million operated on the site he administers. The Russian claimed that the bulk of the information sold related to Russian accounts, but it was proven that the $ 1.2 million deals were related to information originating from the United States, including player data.
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