Fraudsters use mobile payment systems such as BLIK to extort money from their victims. Police officers from Wschowa (Lubusz Voivodeship) described two such incidents that occurred recently.
BLIK fraud. Money was extorted from people who wanted to help a friend
The police reported the fraud of transfer codes on February 25. According to them, they received two reports of such frauds within 24 hours. One concerned a perpetrator who broke the security of an account on one of the social networking sites and impersonated its owner. The fraudster asked the woman’s friends for a loan. Transfers of PLN 800 and PLN 1,600 were transferred to his account.
The second report was also related to fraud that occurred on a social networking site. The victim paid with a code for a watch that she never received. The injured party also did not receive a refund.
The police advise how to protect yourself against transfer code fraud
Maja Piwowarska from the District Police Headquarters in Wschowa noted that “payments using a code, unlike payments by transfer, cannot be reversed, because the criminal immediately enters the code into the ATM and withdraws money from it.” It is therefore important that the fraudster does not obtain the transfer code. Therefore, police officers advise:
- contact the person who asked us for help and check their credibility;
- use two-factor authentication for social accounts;
- check transaction details before confirming it in the mobile banking application;
- protect your mobile devices, especially your bank application PIN.
Source: Gazeta
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