Officers of the Warmia-Masurian Border defender Branch sent back to Ukraine a 29-year-old citizen of this country, who was sentenced to participate in an organized criminal group. The gang he belonged to, in 2017–2019, sent false texts to Poles about the alleged surcharge to the courier delivery. It is 1 of the most frequently reproduced schemes of fraud in the Polish network.
Sentence and return abroad
According to Radio Olsztyn, the deportation was carried out by officers of the Warmia-Mazury Border defender Branch. The man was liable for participating in an organized criminal group that dealt with online fraud. The court found him guilty, and after the criminal case was concluded, the state reached for an instrument which he was entitled to with respect to foreigners breaking the law. The convict went back to his country of origin.
Deportation is not a symbolic gesture. For a citizen of another country who has committed a crime in the territory of Poland, it means the failure of the right to proceed his stay and forced expulsion. The Border defender makes specified decisions routinely, although they seldom come to the public. This time, it was about a man with a conviction for his activity in a group that robbed Poles by means of a courier.
How the Dealing Worked
The pattern was simple but effective. From 2017 to 2019, the group sent mass text messages impersonating a courier company. The recipient received a message about a shipment allegedly waiting for delivery, and was asked for a tiny surcharge. The amount was low adequate that many people paid without thinking.
The trap was hidden in the link. Upon clicking, the victim went to a fake website, illusionally akin to the payment service or logging into the bank. She left her card details there or access to an account that immediately took over the criminals. This mechanism, known as smishing, has been coming back in subsequent installments for years, and the CERT Polska analysts and the banks themselves have repeatedly warned against the "surcharge for shipment". The name of the courier company changes on the screen, the trick remains the same.
Border as a tool of the state
The case shows well why you request to be able to control who is on its territory. Hospitality towards foreigners has its limit where the crime begins. individual who comes and engages in organized theft of citizens breaks the contract on which his stay was based.
The Border defender acted in accordance with the basic logic of the sovereign state. First the justice strategy sets the blame, then the services remove the convict from the border. Well, if specified decisions were to be made consistently alternatively than from case to case. Digital fraud and border tightness present are 2 sides of the same responsibility, due to the fact that online crime has long stopped asking about passports.
Source: Radio Olsztyn
