The woman was deceived by a fake banker. He had a hundred thousand crowns sent from her
A 52-year-old woman from Čelákovice in Prague-East, who was deceived by a hitherto unknown fraudster posing as a banker, lost 427 thousand crowns. The trick that still works was enough to make him money, even though it may seem a bit sluggish: he pretended to be a bank employee who “warned” against endangering the money in the account. And he immediately hurried with advice on how to solve the fictional problem. The result is not surprising: today’s woman has lost her money at risk. “He manipulated it into the execution of a financial transaction,” said police officer Lucie Nováková.
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From the beginning of the “endangered” bank account, the woman withdrew all the money as instructed by the fraudster. At the time, she had not lost her savings, but another step followed: she proceeded to invest the funds in the cryptocurrency, and was to be temporarily protected until the problem with the compromised account resolved them. “After re-sending the QR codes, the cash was put into the bitcoinmat, in a total of thirteen cryptocurrency deposits,” said Nováková. The team decided: the money had disappeared forever in the fraudster’s virtual wallet.
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A real bank never provides like this, warns politicians. “Potential threats to clients’ bank accounts are handled by the banks themselves and they do not need to send access data or data from payment cards,” added Nováková. He also warns against sending cryptocurrencies to the electronic repository, someone passes the destination addresses unexpectedly – so he finds a legitimate and really pre-intended payment.