@EDNYnews @NewYorkFBI @NYPDnews "browsing the internet through a fake browser, using a fake mouse to move around and scroll down a webpage, starting and stopping a video player midway, and falsely appearing to be signed into Facebook."
Cc: @slpng_giants
Cc: @slpng_giants
@EDNYnews @NewYorkFBI @NYPDnews @slpng_giants "A 13-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Aleksandr Zhukov, Boris Timokhin, Mikhail Andreev, Denis Avdeev, Dmitry Novikov, Sergey Ovsyannikov, Aleksandr Isaev and Yevgeniy Timchenko" #cyberfraud
@EDNYnews @NewYorkFBI @NYPDnews @slpng_giants “As alleged in court filings, the defendants in this case used sophisticated computer programming and infrastructure around the world to exploit the digital advertising industry through fraud,” stated United States Attorney Donoghue. #cyberfraud
@EDNYnews @NewYorkFBI @NYPDnews @slpng_giants The Criminal Scheme - The internet is, in large part, freely available to users worldwide because it runs on digital advertising: website owners display advertisements on their sites & are compensated for doing so by intermediaries representing businesses seeking to advertise...
@EDNYnews @NewYorkFBI @NYPDnews @slpng_giants their goods and services to real human customers. In general, digital advertising revenue is based on how many users click or view the ads on those websites. As alleged in court filings, the defendants in this case represented to others that they ran legitimate companies that..
@EDNYnews @NewYorkFBI @NYPDnews @slpng_giants delivered advertisements to real human internet users accessing real internet webpages. In fact, the defendants faked both the users and the webpages: they programmed computers they controlled to load advertisements on fabricated webpages...
@EDNYnews @NewYorkFBI @NYPDnews @slpng_giants via an automated program, in order to fraudulently obtain digital advertising revenue. #CyberFraud
