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A well-organized criminal gang eats up people’s bank accounts through the apparently insured Internet bank, the OTP compensated its loyal customers, the Telenor-MKB couple did not.
In all, more than 110 million guilders were stolen from the bank accounts of three families by professional criminals, writes 24.hu, who explains the fraudster’s method of educating everyone. What they have in common in three stories is that they came up with a very favorable apartment ad, which was supposedly posted by a Hungarian who settled abroad.
The most recent victim, Erika, applied to advertise a 50-square-meter apartment offered for 34 million guilders on Széchenyi Street, District V. A man informed them by phone that his cousin who lives abroad wanted to move into a home with his family and was in dire need of money, so the price was discounted. Although Erika asked to receive the images through a service that could send large files, the advertiser offered free software called AnyDesk, which the security program running on Erika’s machine did not indicate that it was similar.
However, AnyDesk is setting up a remote desktop connection between the computers, giving the criminals a chance to break into Erika’s computer and they presumably had no choice but to wait for the woman to log into her internet bank account.
The SMS was also played
As of now, scammers also needed the codes that the account holder will receive in an SMS upon login and before each transaction is completed. I mean, they also had to control Erika’s phone to get in. At one point in the story, Erika and her husband’s phone were also paralyzed. Telenor later informed the woman after a lengthy investigation that an unknown person had initiated the exchange of SIM cards belonging to the couple’s company subscription at their store in Auchan, Soroksár.
He claimed they had been stolen, along with a request to block the original cards. Then Erika and her husband’s phone went silent. In addition to the forged power of attorney, the stranger presented a false signature copy of Erika’s company for management. According to Telenor, its employee was misled by the seemingly regular documents, yet the company did not fail. This is questioned by experts because if the secretary could have verified the document, which would have turned out to be false.
MKB Bank, like Telenor, stated that they did not make a mistake and were not responsible for what happened. Erika’s, however, say that informing the bank from the beginning was inappropriate, not taking what happened to them seriously. Since then, the couple have been helpless with a loss of HUF 30 million. This is also interesting because, unlike MKB Bank, the victims of the two previous similar scams were compensated by their account-holding bank, OTP.
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