On Thursday, September 1st, a man from the city area discovered that several thousand euros had been unlawfully debited .
The gentleman quickly realized that he must have fallen for a phishing email. A few weeks ago he received an email that supposedly came from his bank. In the email he was asked to provide his bank details to check his details. The man complied with the request.
Note Mimikama: It could have been an email like this
Against this background, the police would like to warn against fraudulent phishing emails.
As a general rule, credit institutions do not request any confidential data from you by email, telephone or post. Further useful information and how you can protect yourself from similar cases can be found on polizei-beratung.de under the section “Dangers on the Internet – Phishing”.
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