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The Šiauliai and Alytus County Police Stations are reporting four different cases that took place on Friday, when scammers posing as bank employees fraudulently lured money from people.
Friday morning, around 10 p.m. A Russian-speaking man who called a woman born in 1959 presented himself as a bank employee and, reporting the money allegedly stolen from the woman, obtained the login details of electronic banking.
Using them, 9,726 euros were stolen from the account of the victim who lived in Šiauliai.
Alytus police announce that Friday at 10.36. A woman born in 1951 was called by a person who introduced himself as a Swedbank employee.
She said that she has a problem with my bank account, someone from her wants to make an illegal transfer, so the person asked for the bank card details. After receiving the data, the scammers debited the bank account with 9,970 euros.
At noon on Friday, Russian-speaking people introduced themselves to a woman born in 1938 and a resident of Lyros Street, Šiauliai, who entered the payment card codes and electronic banking access data and misappropriated 2,830 euros.
In Telšiai, on the evening of the same day, a fraudster, who had obtained the electronic banking access data of a man born in 1979, misappropriated 2,991 euros.
Similar cases are in Vilnius
Vilnius County Police also reported two similar robberies in the final days of Saturday.
On Thursday, around 11 p.m., a woman born in 1965 living on Darius and Girėno streets in Vilnius was called by a person who presented himself as a bank employee and misappropriated 9,630 euros from her account.
The scammers attracted a much smaller amount of 357 euros from a woman born in 1999 and living in Vilnius. Pretrial investigations have been initiated in both cases.
In mid-June, Swedbank warned of further toll fraud attacks, when callers introduce themselves to bank employees and ask whether a loan application has been completed on their behalf, as well as an attempt to make a transfer from the bank. customer account.
Swedbank security specialists emphasize that bank employees never call residents or request disclosure of login details and passwords.
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