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The police publish a video of the fraudster. He claimed to be a bank employee
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A man claiming to be a representative of a buying and selling company cryptocurrencies on Thursday called a 63-year-old resident of Ostrów County, who had already bought digital currencies in the past – informs in the announcement the District Police Headquarters in Ostrów Mazowiecka. The stranger wanted to buy cryptocurrencies and argued that money will go to the account of the man when he gives the name bank and login details.
The scammer wanted to buy cryptocurrencies, extorted half a million zlotys
After giving the login to his account, the 63-year-old received from trickster an email with a link. The aggrieved party opened it and entered the login and password in it, counting on the receipt of money. The scammer called the senior from four different numbers mobile phones and asked him for access codes to the transactions he made. Then the 63-year-old saw that they were being done transfers outgoing and unable to log into his bank account.
The fraudster argued that the money would be returned to his account. When the deceived threatened to report the matter to the police, the stranger replied that he would not get his money back. Then with computer All files have disappeared from the 63-year-old. In this way, he lost money in a foreign currency worth half a million zlotys.
How to protect yourself from scammers?
In order to avoid extorting money, you should remember two rules – you must not give your login and password to strangers and you must not click on suspicious messages with links. You just have to ignore them and remove them. Suspicious e-mails often, but not always, end up in the “spam” tab, where unwanted messages end up, including advertising and promotional offers for various products and services. Any attempts to extort money must be reported to the police.
“Again, we warn against sharing the login and password for the bank account. We absolutely never open links sent by strangers, then we will open a fake page that resembles our bank’s website. After entering the login and password, the perpetrator has access to our bank account and uses it as the owner “- a spokeswoman for the County Police Headquarters in Ostrów Mazowiecka, young asp. Marzena Laczkowska.
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