Wiener Schnitzelhaus-fraudsters: IT trick leads to 340,000 euros in damage!
Wiener Schnitzelhaus-fraudsters: IT trick leads to 340,000 euros in damage!
A scandalous fraud system caused a stir in Vienna, in which a Serbian schnitzel house operator appeared under the pseudonym "Marko Polo" as a fraudulent "bank advisor". He seduced a large number of customers-often heavily indebted or in financial needs-to entrust their bank cards and pins to benefit from an IT security gap in Austrian banks. As reports krone.at , the procedure of the "Marko Polo" is known: He invited customers to the coffee house and offered them that they could enable "frame covers" on accounts. It was not a little thing to emphasize this, because keeping his fraud system afloat required a lot of trust from those affected.
The functionality of the fraud was as clever as it was illegal: "Marko Polo" accepted cash deposits of ATMs between 1,000 and 4,000 euros, but then resolved the same money immediately-through a technical time window, which allowed him to use the canceled money up to the afternoon booking for online transfers. These amounts were ultimately transferred to betting accounts, where the illegally obtained money was paid in cash again after a one -time bet. According to investigations, this led to damage of around 338,400 euros within a few months and over a hundred suspects, such as
It is believed that the security gaps are now closed, but the case is still pending while the loop of the criminal investigation is about those involved. This is an impressive example of how important it is to remain vigilant when dealing with money transactions, especially in a system that is faced with increasing networking.
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