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“We have noticed that financial scammers have started looking for their victims on advertising portals and are mainly targeting residents who sell used smart devices or other more expensive devices.
Most of the time, scammers present themselves as buyers from Eastern European countries and persuade that, for various reasons, they cannot transfer money to a bank account for the item they want to buy. You then send a link to a page, often visually reminiscent of a real ad site, and ask the seller to enter your payment card details there, apparently to transfer money to the seller’s card for the item you want. to buy.
In this way, scammers steal payment card details and the money they contain, ”warns Audrius Šapola, Director of the Prevention Department at SEB Bank.
According to him, scammers, with a good understanding of human psychology, take advantage of the fact that people who sell items, especially the most expensive ones, want to sell them as soon as possible and therefore often do not think or critically evaluate those requests from fake buyers.
“Once again, we remind residents that they will be careful and always critical if someone asks them to enter their Internet banking passwords or payment card details and sends them a suspicious link to the website. Also, if you request these data by calling. No one, not the bank employees, not the state institutions or the police, is asking for these data to be disclosed ”, underlines A. Šapola.
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