To his credit: having provided data to scammers who send false Ameli and Netflix messages or to a scam network of fake bank advisers. Between 2021 and 2023, “this national fraud had caused hundreds of victims […] The financial damage is considerable and would exceed one million euros, ”says La dépêche.
Taken into custody on March 28, he came out free three days later and returned to his high school on Monday April 3, like a normal student. “He is about to pass his baccalaureate, economic and social section, in the hope of becoming a computer scientist or economist. »
600,000 euros of profit
This teenager would have trained in computers by spending hours and hours in front of his computer, playing video games and going on forums. “He learned everything on the job by going to this kind of site”, specifies his lawyer Me Alexandre Parra-Bruguière. Recovering personal data was “a challenge” according to La Dépêche. An uncomplicated challenge for the high school student, who, understanding that this know-how could be interesting, would have created a site to sell bank card numbers, telephone numbers and other data.
