14 DAY TRIAL // A pensioner in Austria alerted the authorities of illegal money transfers in his online banking account, which led to the arrest of three cybercriminals.
The 64-year-old living in Walding in the district of Urfahr, in Upper Austria, noticed the balance in two of his bank account shrunken by a few tens of thousands of euros.
It appears that he fell victim to a phishing fraud and accessed a link that led to a malicious website set up by the cybercrooks, which impersonated the legitimate site of the bank.
He entered the credentials that reached into the hands of the perps, allowing them to divert the money into their accounts.
Such types of fraud are quite common, but they can be very complex, to the extent that only a specific category of computer users are targeted.
The bank was quick at recovering the money thanks to the fast response from the police.
The investigation of the police led to a number of five suspects, three of them being from Poland and proving to be the real criminals.
The fraud occurred at the beginning of last week, and the police department managed to solve the case efficiently, in less than a week, as they made available a press release on Sunday, according to The Local newspaper.