In Tyrol

Woman brazenly ripped off by scammers over the phone

A Tyrolean woman was "relieved" of several thousand euros. A supposed employee of an online payment service contacted her to "help" her. But it was actually a scam!

You can't be suspicious enough these days when it comes to disclosing your account details. But first things first: On June 8, a Tyrolean woman (46) was contacted by a supposed employee of an online payment service. The employee told the woman that a debit had been made for a high three-digit euro amount in Indian currency and whether this was correct.

Was forwarded to another employee
The woman replied in the negative and followed the employee's instructions to press 1 on her phone to cancel the booking. She was then asked by another employee to disclose her account details.

The woman also complied with this request. After a direct debit and refund had actually appeared, she unfortunately only discovered in the afternoon that several direct debits had been made. The loss runs into the thousands!