A supposed million dollar profit from an investment in a crypto currency apparently blew all the fuses of a Tyrolean (42): she transferred over 10,000 euros to the fraudsters. The money is gone now.
At the beginning of June, a 42-year-old Austrian opened a web link in an email. On the website, she was promised big profits by investing in a cryptocurrency. She entered her contact details and was then alternately contacted by three alleged brokers via a messenger service. This then led them to first transfer a three-digit euro amount as start-up capital.
The unknown perpetrators had the victim send a photo of their passport and then used this information to open a bank account in Germany. “The 42-year-old then transferred a total amount of a low five-digit euro amount in several tranches to this account from June to September, but she never had access to this account,” the police said.
Contact suddenly broke off
After the Austrian could no longer make any transfers from the beginning of September, the unknown perpetrators broke off contact with her. “Investigations into the cell phone numbers with which the perpetrators acted revealed that they were obviously fake identities,” explains the executive.