The telephone conversation lasted 6 hours: everything ended with a complete emptying of the bank account.

Aurelijus Stanislovaitis, the deputy chief prosecutor of the Klaipėda district, said on “Information Day” that the talks lasted for hours and according to him, a woman’s money was attracted for up to 6 hours.

“I can’t answer as much as I can, but I can answer that it really was. We observed instances of speaking for an hour, wondering what could be done in an hour or three.

One of the cases, in fact, was: during the day, from 10 am to 4 pm All the persuasion ended with the emptying of the victim’s account, because she dictated the codes to the “banking robot”, so to speak “, A. Stanislovaitis told television.

He said the scammers managed to convince the woman that if the victim did not trust the person on the phone, they were mimicking by giving the data to a robot.

“After the signal, the connection codes were dictated to the robot,” said A. Stanislovaitis.

The officer did not hide the fact that the scammer received the call even in person.

“It just came to our knowledge then. This is perhaps the biggest problem of all the cases and victims, that there is no determination to immediately end the conversation, which is suspicious,” said the interlocutor of the program.

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According to A. Stanislovasitis, of the three dozen surveys registered and initiated, Russian-speaking callers predominate.

“On the territory of the activity of the Klaipėda district, in the Western Lithuania region, we estimate that more than three thousand of these crimes, when calls are made posing as bank employees and victims then confirm their request with an account of intelligent identification or PIN generator, they were close to 200 thousand euros. “All this during a period of a month and a half, from mid-June to the end of July,” said the official.

According to A. Stanislovaitis, the officials managed to “freeze” part of the money lost by the victims of the fraud.

“But we have to admit that we turned late to law enforcement. Scammers who have seized money do not accumulate it in those accounts, it is immediately transferred to another account and unfortunately we cannot avoid or steal that money very quickly in the second. or third step, ”said the head of the port city, deputy prosecutor.

Residents, realizing that they had been stunned, A. Stanislovaitis urged to immediately contact the bank from whose account the transfer was made and the police.

“It is possible that the victims do not realize it all the time, perhaps next time there will be other arguments, a feeling of shame, they do not want to reveal themselves to their loved ones and those steps are delayed,” said the interlocutor.

The official also pointed out that, in the practice of such cases, it had become clear that these acts were not carried out by people.

“This is done by organized groups, there are people with different qualifications – some call, the other takes over the conversation after the victim is hooked, as if some other specialist was connected, who has more psychological knowledge to be able to give that away money”. .

In the background, we often hear a sound that would be similar to some kind of background noise from office workers, and a banking institution is entered, ”said A. Stanislovaitis.

Simulate calls from a different number than it really is: it adapts to technology

He said that the scammers in the schemes pretend that the call is coming from some specific phone number, that is, they hide the real phone number from which the call is made.

“The victim sees that the call is from a Lithuanian subscriber: 8654 and so on. Unfortunately, but by looking at this number, we can never identify that the scam is calling. The sequence of numbers is random. (…)

I had also received such a call, immediately after ending the call I called that number again, a real subscriber of that number answered me, he really did not notice that call and there is no such call in his call history . “Said A. Stanislovaitis.

The scammers, he said, follow all the efforts of banks or credit institutions to prevent possible cases of fraud and adapt, change their techniques.

“The caller should always contact the bank. If they call you from the bank, excuse yourself, hang up and call the tank yourself. It will be a fuse. The second safeguard is that you never need to confirm any money order with some identification codes. (…) For transactions that you did not initiate ”, emphasized A. Stanislovaitis.