The Hotline Internetoplichting in its first year to 30,000 reports of online fraud received. Are 175 cases were taken into consideration, which, until now, up to 50 major studies and several arrests resulted.
The Hotline Internetoplichting is a project of justice and police to ensure that citizens are at a single site can internetoplichting. That is since the beginning of the site, in October, 30,000 times happened. It has the complaints of 175 cases exercised which should be further investigated. Jeroen Groot, spokesperson of the initiator Police of Kennemerland, the number of pending cases not a few: “Regularly hear dozens of reports at one and the same thing. In addition, not all notifications are of good quality. We look at what the exact question is, how detailed the message is, what the number of reports is that there may be related to it and what the damage is, and then make the decision whether it is useful to the case.”
The fiu also does not have the illusion internetoplichting the world to help and wants the threshold for notifications as low as possible, according to Large. “We want the repeat offenders make this more difficult. The point has a central control and coordinate. Thanks to the site we get a better overview of the extent of online fraud. It will also not always lead to criminal investigations, but it can cause, for example, a Marketplace for certain accounts, cancel or banks to research suspicious transactions.”
So in the 50 major studies, among other dozens of account numbers requested from banks for criminal evidence gathering. The remaining 125 cases be transferred to local rechercheteams. The hotline points out some of the stops that after a review of the hotline have happened, such as the arrest of the 32-year-old man by the Belgian police in Brussels, at the beginning of this year, who is suspected of hundreds of victims have been ripped off. At the end of november was a 34-year-old IJmuidenaar held via the internet ordered concert tickets, and Nintendo consoles not yielded, that he is 18.000 euro earned would have to 220 buyers.