In two cases involving fraud through the use of digital money cards, the damage amount is over 20,000 euros. The police warn against false bank employees and criminal emails: Never give out your PIN number or TAN numbers because of calls or emails that supposedly come from your bank.
Be careful of these emails
With the help of fake emails in the name of the bank, fake bank websites and calls from alleged employees of the financial institution, the fraudsters steal their victims' personal information. In the fake emails, the perpetrators unsettle their victims. They give a variety of reasons to get their victim to submit a TAN number.
The perpetrators proceed in a similar way on the phone, where they want to hear the TAN or PIN numbers for the victim's account for confirmation. The callers sometimes even know the name of the actual bank advisor and refer to him during the conversation. The perpetrators have already obtained this information from their fake emails – the so-called “phishing”. The fraudsters then already have access to online banking and only need a PIN and/or TAN for their criminal plans.
Large sums of money are seized using digital cash cards
For example, the fraudsters use the data to activate mobile payment via cell phone and can thus make purchases at the victims' expense. The crimes are usually noticed early after the first account transactions and the damage remains in the three to four-digit range. In two cases reported to the Paderborn police, the perpetrators used the stolen digital cards while shopping in electronics stores or hardware stores in southern Germany or Berlin. Within two days they had debited the victims' accounts with over 20,000 euros.
These cases make it clear how sensitive everyone when it comes to their personal data . Criminals try to obtain this data in a variety of ways in order to misuse it. Online accounts on Ebay, Amazon or other Internet sales portals are just as much a focus of the perpetrators as the bank details described here.
The police advise: Don't let yourself be put under pressure . As a general rule, credit institutions do not request confidential data from you by email, telephone or post. If you are unsure, be sure to consult your bank. Consistently use strong passwords and “two-factor authentication”.
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