U.S. DoJ Seizes Fraud Domain Behind $14.6 Million Bank Account Takeover Scheme
On Monday, the U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) announced the seizure of a database and web domain that it claimed was used in a criminal conspiracy to target and defraud Americans through bank account takeover fraud.
The aforementioned domain, web3adspanels[.]org, was utilized as a backend web panel to store and alter bank login credentials that had been obtained unlawfully. A seizure banner stating that the domain was taken down in an international law enforcement operation headed by authorities from the United States and Estonia now greets visitors to the website.
According to the DoJ, the criminal organization behind the bank account takeover scam used search engines like Google and Bing to distribute fake ads. These bogus ads mimic the sponsored search engine ads that reputable ba...