Against the backdrop of an exacerbation of the Iranian-Israeli conflict, the Russian-speaking media and Telegram channels distributed a video with the logo of the publication The Times of Israel, telling about the crimes of Ukrainian benches. We checked the authenticity of this video.
In the 30-second plot (or rather, in subtitles to it) it is reported that from the very beginning of the 12-day war with Iran, the Israeli citizens allegedly began to call the scammers who were officers of the Israeli Defense Army and asked to make a donation to maintain the Iron Dome Air Defense System. It is alleged that all transfers were sent to Ukrainian banks, and in total, fraudsters managed to get at least $ 80 million.
They told about this Eadaily, "Tsargrad", As well as many Telegram channels-in particular,"KB"(248,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Bocharik (yeah, the same)"(197 000),"Ivan Utenkov"(134 000), Voblya (129,000) and "Ostashko! Important"(90 000). The news became viral and outside the Runet - so, the publication of the American extreme left resource Mintpress News On this topic, on Instagram collected more than 33,000 likes.
Ukrainian fraudulent call centers are constant objects of attention of the Russian media. In recent years FSB And Sberbank Hundreds of organizations operating in Ukraine reported, whose employees called the Russians in order to lure money or persuade the sabotage. And even if such call centers are detected in Russia in reports Usually it tells about Ukrainian curators. In Ukraine itself, such scammers too Catchbut it is not possible to eradicate the problem. In 2020, in the investigation of the activities of one Kyiv call center managed by the Israeli, took part Journalists The Times of Israel.
The Times of Israel is the largest Israeli English -language news edition. "Verified" studied publications on his official site, YouTube channel, pages in Facebook, X And Instagram And did not find the videos, at least a little like a viral video. It was also not possible to find text notes on the same topic.
Their design, including musical, viral video reminds The videos that it shoots for The Times of Israel Photo and Video journalist Eli Katsoff. However, his work does not consist exclusively of replacing static personnel equipped with subtitles - they are usually dynamic and contain only the heading from the text. In addition, at the end of such videos, the inscription "A film by @lycatzoff" appears, which is not here.
Other reports of the Israeli edition usually do not contain a logo, and subtitles are accompanied Voice in a sunbeam. Such subtitles also look completely different.
Moreover, there is no information about the activities of Ukrainian scammers who intensified in Israel after the start of the war with Iran, there are no other authoritative Israeli publications on the sites. The viral report is mentioned by the local police, but it is with statements on this topic I did not speak.
The earliest discovered “checked” publication that contained this video appeared on June 26 at 15:56 Moscow time in the pro-Kremlin Telegram channel “Shaman Rahu". He repeatedly Facing In our analysis as the source of misinformation.
In 2023 and 2024, a video on the same topic, mimicing under the videos of The Times of Israel, already appeared on the Web. In the first case Ukrainian scammers allegedly submitted the bank’s employees and reported: because of the Hamas attack, they need bank cards to transfer the money of Israeli to a safe place. The total damage allegedly amounted to $ 30 million. The second viral videoThe published in June 2024, it was even more like spreading now, a year later: it was argued that scammers on behalf of the Israeli Ministry of Defense collected equipment for Israeli soldiers participating in the operation in the Gaza Strip. Even the amount of stolen was the same ($ 80 million), and a picture with the office of the Ukrainian Privatbank was also selected for the frame about the final point of transactions. In both described cases, the videos turned out to be fakes.
Thus, a video about Ukrainian scammers, who allegedly lured $ 80 million from the Israelis for the needs of the IDF in June 2025, Fakeov. It was created and widespread according to the scheme already worked out in past years with the aim of discrediting Ukraine.
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