The authorities had been mobilized late yesterday afternoon, following the sending of threatening e-mails to plant bombs in non-public companies with the purpose of extorting cash, which in the end turned out to be fraud.
In keeping with the police, the senders of the emails had been initially asking the administration of a non-public hospital in Nicosia after which two lodges in Limassol for big quantities of cryptocurrency. They threatened that in the event that they weren’t happy, they’d proceed to activate explosive units that they had planted.
The instances had been reported to the police, checks adopted and it was discovered that it was an try to defraud and extort cash.
Within the case of the 2 lodges, an quantity of 75,000 {dollars} in cryptocurrency had been requested, whereas within the case of the non-public hospital there’s speak of 25,000.
Investigations by the Cyber ​​Crime Workplace are underway to determine the sender of the threatening messages.
Supply: Radio RIK
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