2023-05-12 18:00:00
“The modus operandi is often the same: the scammer pretends to be an adviser from the bank branch and alerts the victim of fraudulent operations that are carried out on his account. He asks him to follow a certain number of operations to Using the Digipass, the often panicked victim carries out the procedure hoping to stop the fraudulent transfers only the opposite is happening”indicates the police of the Stavelot-Malmedy area.
This phenomenon unfortunately affects many people, there is no target audience, reports the police zone. “A person who had access to his mum’s account was the victim of this recently. It was therefore a double scam that took place. The situation is catastrophic, all the accounts of the son and the mother have been emptied in a very short time of time”.
The damage is significant in this case, “between €30,000 and €40,000, that represents savings of a lifetime”completes the police, which recalls that a bank adviser will never ask his customers to use the Digipass during a telephone interview. “If this happens, you have to hang up with the person on the line and dial the official number of the bank and ask to speak to an adviser”.
It should be noted that transfers confirmed by the customer using the box are in most cases very complicated to have banking organizations suspend.
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