Teens Arrested For Cybercrime!
Latest news reveals that The Metropolitan Police’s Central; e-crime Unit has recently arrested two teenagers in
connection with a certain international cybercrime investigation that has taken place. These two teenagers are both males who are 17 and 18 years of age. They are currently being held in a central London police station.
These two boys were arrested with regard to suspicion of assisting crime as well as encouraging crime, unauthorized computer access as well as conspiracy to commit various types of fraud. It has been claimed that detectives involved have actually recovered over 65.000 compromised credit and debit card number, this amounts to a potential industry loss of 7.9 million.
They found that a forum has been assisting the theft as well as the selling of personal information which is becoming bigger and bigger in the cybercrime world. This is besides the debit and credit card fraud that they found as well as the exchanging of malicious software.
This particular forum is actually giving tutorials on how to commit computer offences and how to evade certain law enforcement stuff. Hopefully continuously making arrests for cybercrime will have some impact in the deterrence of cybercrime in the future.
Detective Chief, inspector Terry Wilson of the PCeU says:”The arrests are an example of our increasing effort to combat online criminality and reduce national harm to the UK economy and public,”.








