A mean internet criminal transferred money from a married couple’s account unnoticed – the trail leads to Ireland.
A criminal has swindled a small but extremely illegal additional income at the expense of a couple from Gföhl in the district of Krems. Since September 2021, he had regularly transferred small amounts of money from both of his victims’ accounts to a platform in Ireland. The two only noticed this this spring, around a year and a half after the first debit. In total, a four-digit amount of money was gone. The couple cannot explain how the stranger managed to gain access to the accounts and create direct debit orders there. The police are also investigating at full speed, as in a similar case in Weinzierl am Walde, 15 kilometers away. There, in the middle of the night, a man received a message from his bank app on his cell phone. This informed him that a three-digit amount had just been transferred to a hotel agency in Amsterdam via his credit card – despite the two-factor authentication actually required. A cancellation of the amount has been requested.
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