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The Viennese woman offers her shoes on an online platform.
However, fraudsters use a sophisticated scam to get hold of your bank details.
Vienna – A Viennese woman wanted to sell her old things on the website Vinted.
This is a second-hand platform on which you place advertisements online and send the goods to the buyer after payment.
Among other things, she offered an old pair of shoes for 30 euros.
She then became a victim of fraudsters.
There are some scams circulating not only online, but also via phone calls.
The grandchild trick, in which criminals pose as relatives, has been known for years.
Scammers respond to Vinted sales ad
“That was my first time, I had never sold anything online before,” the woman told
Today.at.
“Shortly after the advertisement and photo were published, an interested person got in touch.
I should contact her sister Katja S. on WhatsApp.
She would arrange the purchase there”.
The woman did that too.
Another woman also became several thousand euros poorer via WhatsApp.
The woman wanted to sell old shoes when she fell victim to fraudsters (symbolic image) © Zoonar/Imago
After the WhatsApp chat initially went normally, the alleged sister sent a strange message.
“Great, I just paid for the goods via Vinted.
Take my money!”, according to Nele, she wrote, including an unknown link.
The Vinted Support Chat, which can be accessed via the link, would help Nele with the next steps.
Incorrect support chat asks Viennese woman for bank details
The Viennese woman was also not taken aback by the website behind the link.
“Everything looked so normal.
Shortly afterwards I was asked for my bank details.
I immediately assumed that I would have to deposit this as a new member so that they could automatically transfer my money to me in the future,” said the Viennese.
“I found it strange that they asked for my security code.”
The woman then received a message from her bank asking whether she had logged in from another server.
The Viennese confirmed that she thought the message concerned her and not the fraudsters who were said to have taken advantage of her data and money at the same moment.
The website Vinted also sent her a message that her account had been blocked.
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5,632.97 euros poorer – fraudsters gain access to the account
The Viennese woman, who still believed she was writing to the Vinted Support Chat, asked for help there.
According to her, it was then said that there was an error with her debit card and additional bank details were needed.
The Viennese woman also gave her credit card details without further ado.
Under the pretext of a test debit, Nele was supposed to authorize the transfer of 2,990 euros.
It was only when the credit card agency was on the phone the next day that the young woman realized that she had fallen for a bad scam.
The fraudsters had also withdrawn money from their other account.
In the end, the young woman lost a total of 5,632.97 euros.
The bank doesn't want to help the young woman despite having insurance.
Since the woman had authorized the transfers herself, she was to blame for her situation.
Nele has now reported her case to the police in order to get the money back.