Anyone who does sports wants a watch that measures body data. When a man from Carinthia was looking for models on the Internet, he was offered the best price – supposedly on the website of a watch shop in Lower Austria. Now he’s out almost 900 euros, and blocking his credit card is making life difficult with subscriptions.
When a man from Carinthia was researching various sports watches on the Internet, a search engine offered him the best price – supposedly on the homepage of a watch shop in Lower Austria. “The homepage looked reputable. A company URL was given as well as an address, and there really is a watchmaker there,” says the 35-year-old, who is familiar with the Internet and shopping on the worldwide web. Nevertheless, this time he fell victim to fraudsters. When he paid the bill for 441 euros via a payment service that had the Carinthian’s credit card account stored so that the seller could not access the bank card details, an error message appeared. “That happens every now and then. If there is a technical problem, you just do it again,” says the 35-year-old. But he still doesn’t have an order confirmation, and the amount was debited twice. “And not from the company that, according to the website, is based on the lake in Lower Austria, but from a Polish account,” said the Carinthian, who has now lost 882 euros and, as always in such fraud cases, has not been able to contact the alleged company. He has of course filed several reports about the alleged company. “There are several reports in this matter,” said a police officer from Lunz am See in Lower Austria. Of course, the 35-year-old also had his credit card blocked. “But you can’t forget your subscriptions: Audible, Spotify, the gigabyte extension… In order to pay for all of this, you have stored your credit card details – but they are now blocked. So I had to stop these subscriptions, cancel some, and wait for the new credit card,” said the sporty Carinthian. “In future, I will buy from real people in real shops again!”
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