Scams on the Internet are a dime a dozen or – in Tyrolean terms – like snow on the slopes. A Russian woman (36) can now sing a song about this. The woman booked a Russian-speaking ski instructor online prior to her winter holiday. When she arrived in Tyrol, she discovered that she had fallen into the trap of a fraudster.
On Christmas Day, the 36-year-old Russian woman went straight to the Oetz police station instead of the gondola lift. The holidaymaker stated that she had already booked a ski course with a Russian-speaking ski instructor for the Hochoetz area via a website at the end of November and had made a deposit.
But nothing came of it. “On the day of arrival, the alleged ski instructor contacted the messaging service and feigned an emergency. Contact was then lost,” the researchers said.
Money gone, find the perpetrator
The victim suffered more than 1,000 euros in damage due to the fraud. There is no trace of the perpetrator. The police have started an investigation.
Source: Krone
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