A 77-year-old fell victim to internet scammers and lost several hundred thousand euros in the process. According to the Munich police, the pensioner from Neuried first received a call on November 19 from an unknown perpetrator who posed as a bank employee. He warned the man that his accounts had been hacked. In the phone call, the 77-year-old stated that he had other accounts at another branch.
Shortly after this call, a second perpetrator posed as an employee of an online bank. The pensioner revealed his account access data to him.
In the days that followed, more than a hundred transfers to foreign accounts and a cryptocurrency platform were unblocked. According to the police, the perpetrators also had access to the man’s stock portfolio and sold his securities worth several thousand euros.
The 77-year-old only realized that he had become a victim of Internet fraud when his bank called him and informed him about the many unusual transfers. The Commissariat 122 for cybercrime at the Munich Police Headquarters is investigating.