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The case study: How to rob a bank from the outside?

Many investigations would come directly at the crime scene after the bank’s robbery – trying to
figure out what happened as well as collect some evidence and findings. The crime scene in
such a case would be a bank’s office where the incident occurred. On the other hand, these
modern times would bring us new threats and challenges and in many cases – the offenders
would not need to come to a bank to take the money; they would just organize that robbery
through their computers. In other words, the crime scene to such an offence would be
someone’s computer with the internet connection. Through this scenario, we would like to
present a case study of the heavy case including hackers, logistic support and team for a
money collection as well as
explain how such a scenario
could get handled in a practice.

The cyberspace as a perfect
crime scene

There is no more need for
spectacularly organized armed
robberies that would put many
people at risk to their lives and
security. The modern criminals
use sophisticated methods of
committing a crime – normally
relying on cyber technologies
as the way of safe stealing the
money. So often, not even
criminals are ready to take that
risk and get shot by security
officers or Police Force
members at the crime scene.

In other words, many guys got
an idea how to take the big
money, but they are not
interested to put their or
anyone else’s lives on a risk.
For those reasons – many
organized crime enterprises
would use the hackers to break
into a bank’s system and
collect the money through

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