Court convicts 20-year-old hacker from Samarkand for defrauding businessmen via Telegram

In Samarkand, a hacker who opened pages on Telegram under the names of entrepreneurs and misappropriated their money has been sentenced by a court. 

It was reported that the 20-year-old young man used the Telegram pages of well-known entrepreneurs in the Samarkand region to swindle them out of large sums of money.

The young man opened pages on Telegram under the names of the entrepreneurs and used their photographs. Then he found the contacts of the employees working under these entrepreneurs.

He then wrote to the assistants and employees on behalf of the entrepreneurs, claiming that money was urgently needed.

The assistants and employees, not suspecting that the pages could be fake, transferred the requested money.

According to the “Zamon” information program, the young man had closely observed the well-known entrepreneurs before committing the crime.

"First, I opened a page under the entrepreneurs' names. Then, pretending to be them, I wrote to their managers, sales office employees, and other workers, asking them to transfer money. No one questioned why and simply transferred the money I requested," the young man said during the court session.

The young man provided the card numbers in his possession to the deceived individuals, and they transferred the money to him. In this way, the hacker managed to acquire a total of 36 million UZS from one entrepreneur and 43 million UZS from another.

In court, he stated that he had lost the money in online gambling games. The young man also emphasized that after his actions were revealed, he sold the house he was living in to compensate the entrepreneurs for the damages caused.

It was discovered that the young man had previously misappropriated money through hacking and had been convicted twice before.

The court found the hacker guilty under Article 168, Part 3 of the Criminal Code (fraud committed repeatedly or by a dangerous recidivist) and sentenced him to 1 year and 7 months of restricted freedom.