Bank card details of several people who posted sales ads on an online platform were stolen by fake shoppers, who tricked people into accessing a link and entering their bank information on the pretext that they would transfer their money. , the police from Satu Mare conducting searches on suspects from the Capital.
The policemen of the Satu Mare Criminal Investigation Service, under the coordination of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Satu Mare Court, executed four search warrants, in Bucharest, for persons suspected of computer fraud and fraudulent financial operations, writes agerpres.ro .
“The investigation revealed that the suspects allegedly contacted, through a free messaging application, people who used an online sale-purchase platform to sell certain products, claiming that they were interested in the purchase. a link, on which he would have fictitiously created a visual identity of the online sale-purchase platform and would have asked sellers to enter their bank card details, in order to collect the amount of money related to the product offered for sale “, transmitted, on Friday, by the Romanian Police.
After the victims accessed the link and entered the card details, they would automatically enter the possession of the suspects, who would have stolen money from the related accounts.
“Following the searches, computer systems were discovered and seized, 1,244 pre-pay cards, 4 non-lethal pistols, 42 bank cards, money, documents and documents,” investigators said.
Police officers recommend carefully analyzing the information received before accessing links or attachments from unknown sources. People are also advised to pay attention to the written expression of the interlocutors, as well as to the grammatical correctness of the text, often the offenders being from outside the country.
Online sales platforms require the entry of card data only when making purchases, not when selling products by users.
– .
