Residents in Thassos are now falling two by two victims of fraud, with the perpetrators devising a thousand and two ways to secure their bank details and empty their accounts. But one fraudster went over the top, posing as the commander of the police station!
The perpetrator contacted a taxi driver by phone on Friday to whom he gave the name of the officer under the pretext that he wanted to take over the transport of police officers! He then asked him to pay the fee into his online account. The unsuspecting taxi driver received a message on his mobile phone containing a link that took him to an environment similar to that of a bank and typed in his personal bank codes, resulting in the fraudster gaining access to his account and transferring €3,000 to another account.
And this, while police investigations are underway to identify another unknown fraudster, who last Wednesday defrauded a resident of the island, whom he contacted by phone and introduced himself as the security officer of the bank where he has deposits. The perpetrator claimed that an unknown person had hacked into the victim's bank account and convinced him to give him his bank codes, resulting in three money transfers, totalling €8,980!
Source: Proto Thema
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