The 56-year-old man from Kalvari received a call from the US technology company Google early in the morning.
A Russian-speaking woman introduced herself as an administrator and stated that the man’s bank account was being hacked.
After that, a SEB bank employee allegedly called the Kalvarijie resident. The husband did not suspect that the employee of the bank operating in Lithuania was communicating with him in a non-state language.
The supposed banker confirmed that the man’s account was being hacked and told him what to do to protect the money.
Kalvarizietis received two letters in his e-mail with instructions: to confirm the e-mail address and write down the sent PIN codes.
The man did everything, but after a couple of hours he began to doubt whether all these operations were a scam.
After calling the bank branch, the man from Kalvari found out that 6 thousand was withdrawn from his account. EUR 70 transfer.
Some time ago, a middle-aged woman from Alytis was similarly affected.
A Russian-speaking man who introduced himself as a diagnostician from the Google company assured the woman that fraudsters had hacked into her phone and were copying data, so she needed to connect to electronic banking.
At first, the woman from Alytis refused, but then a technology specialist from the Bank of Lithuania, who also spoke Russian, lured her into a trap.
He told the woman to approve various documents, transfer the money to some kind of reserve, take out loans.
Alytiskė had already transferred 5 thousand to the scammers. 450 euros when real bank employees called her.
They warned the customer that they suspected she was being used by scammers and told her to stop all communication with them.
2024-08-25 15:37:28