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“I lost 19,000 euros”: BoursoBank customers victims of a fake IBAN scam

2024-02-08T05:24:48.049Z

Highlights: Aline, 32, saw her BoursoBank accounts emptied last August, after a call from a fake bank advisor. In total, “I lost 19,000 euros, everything I had saved since I was 18,” she laments. The young woman was the victim of a variant of the “vishing” scam, i.e. telephone phishing by a person who pretends to be your bank advisor and encourages you to transfer money to other accounts.


This new scam which targeted these online banking customers (formerly Boursorama) is a variant of “vishing”. She gives the impression


“It was all my savings.

» Aline, 32, saw her BoursoBank accounts emptied last August, after a call from a fake bank advisor.

In total, “I lost 19,000 euros, everything I had saved since I was 18,” she laments.

The young woman was the victim of a variant of the “vishing” scam, i.e. telephone phishing by a person who pretends to be your bank advisor and encourages you to transfer money to other accounts.

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In this specific case, Aline, like several other BoursoBank (formerly Boursorama) customers, validated transfers to a new account of which she was the holder.

At least that's what he was led to believe.

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Source: leparis

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