A florist from the island of Skiathos lost 21,258 euros because of a bouquet worth 70 euros.
A 42-year-old man who works at his mother’s flower shop received a phone call from an unknown man on March 27 saying he lives outside of Skiathos and wants to send a bouquet. After placing the order, he asked for bank details for making a money transfer. This step proved fatal.
The florist, without thinking twice, provided the account number and email address to which the “client” would send a confirmation of the deposit. An hour later, the 42-year-old man realized that he had become a victim of fraud, but the “criminal” had already managed to make seven money transfers to different recipients for a total of 21,258 euros.
As expected, the victim reported the incident to the police, who are currently investigating the incident. iefimerida.gr.
Phishing (eng. phishing from fishing “fishing, fishing”) is a type of Internet fraud, the purpose of which is to gain access to confidential user data – logins and passwords.
As “AN” wrote earlier, on the island of Samos the other day, scammers fished out 80,000 euros from the owner of the hotel in a similar way. They called the owner of the hotel, posing as a potential client, and agreed to rent a room for a specific amount of 510 euros.
Then, using an SMS message sent to the victim that contained misleading content (i.e. a message from a bank), the login details for an electronic bank account (e-banking) were stolen.
As established by law enforcement agencies, two transfers were made from the victim’s bank account, totaling 80,000 euros.
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