Basin scam. She wanted to sell and make money, but she lost half a million zlotys

– Recently, police officers from Wejherowo district have received more reports of fraud – says Asp. Work crew. Anita Potrykus, Press Officer for the District Police Commander in Jahiro. This time it happened Extorting money when selling a laundry. A Wejherowo woman lost her life savings – More than 500 thousand zlotys.

A resident of Wejherowo District wanted to sell a laundromat. For this purpose, she placed an advertisement on one of the popular sales platforms in Poland. She quickly found a potential buyer who wanted to talk to her privately, rather than on the platform, using an online messenger.

– During the conversation, send a link to the seller. The woman clicked on this link and logged into her account. Then an unknown man called her and informed her that he was a bank employee and that someone was trying to withdraw money from her account – Reports to the police in Wejehrowo. In this way, the man convinced the woman that someone had hacked her account and that he was trying to help her.

The woman sent the alleged “bank employee” Blik’s authorization code, which was supposed to “secure her account.” Then I sent another one. – The scammer told her that the money would be transferred from her account to the technician’s account. This led to various transactions and transfers from her account – A policewoman describes a fraud scenario. In this way, her entire life savings – more than half a million zlotys – disappeared from the woman’s account.

Not a day goes by that we at Interia don’t describe new things Ideas of scammers to extort money And subsequent cases when you succeed.

ING Bank Śląski customers are targeted by cybercriminals. The scammers sent SMS messages impersonating a bank, informing them that access to the mobile application had expired. In this way, they wanted to extort login details, and thus money from the account.

A resident of the municipality of Oświęcim She tried to sell expensive wigs online, but as a result of fraud she lost PLN 18,000. Zloty. In order to conduct correspondence related to the transaction, she exchanged an email address with the alleged “trader.” Shortly afterwards, the woman received an email that turned out to contain a dangerous link giving scammers access to her personal and credit card details.

Fake tickets have appeared behind the windshield wipers of parked cars in Warsaw. Recently, many drivers in the capital have been scammed by a new style of thieves. The amounts of “fines” started from PLN 200.

The police constantly urge people to be particularly careful and not to send their personal data or passwords to banking or mObywatel applications to strangers. “Let’s be vigilant, remember not to give Blik codes to anyone, let’s not make bank transfers to people we don’t know, and let’s not give criminals access to our bank account.” – Police appeal.

Sometimes police officers are able to catch criminals, but cases do not always end successfully. Recently Police arrested a 20-year-old man who was extorting money using payments using the Blik code. At the time of the arrest, an amount of PLN 16,000 was found and confiscated in the fraudster’s home. Polish złoty in cash, medicines, as well as bank and credit cards.