A vicious internet criminal transferred money unnoticed from the account of a married couple from Lower Austria – the trail leads to Ireland.
A criminal has swindled a small but extremely illegal extra income at the expense of a couple from Gföhl in the Krems district. Since September 2021, he had regularly transferred small amounts from both his victims’ accounts to a platform in Ireland. The two only noticed this this spring, about a year and a half after the first write-off. In all, a four-figure sum of money was lost.
The couple cannot explain how the foreign national gained access to the accounts and created direct debit orders there. The police are also investigating at full speed, as in a similar case in Weinzierl am Walde, 15 kilometers away. There, a man received a message from his banking app on his mobile phone in the middle of the night.
She told him that a three-digit amount had just been transferred from his credit card to a hotel agency in Amsterdam – even though two-factor authentication was actually required. A cancellation of the amount has been requested.
Source: Krone
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