Cyber attacks are the topic of the day and Galician Aida Lorenzo wants to tell her story to warn potential victims. “I have nothing left,” complains the victimized young woman. beautifula kind of phishing where mobile phones are used as attack platforms. The attacker carries out the attack in an attempt to obtain personal information, including card or social security numbers. In the Aida case, with a single text message received on his cell phone on September 23, hackers They managed to steal 8,000 euros from his account at Banco Santander.
“I received an SMS from Santander to the message thread that the bank sent me. I was told there was a fee of 528 Euros on my account and they gave me a link to confirm the purchase”, says Aida Lorenzo. this link was clicked and redirected to a page similar to the one used by Banco Santander to enter banking access data online. “It was the same,” says the young woman. When he typed his password and the page froze, he got suspicious and called the bank.
“They stole 7 thousand euros from me in ten minutes,” he denounced.. For this, they made a transfer of 7,000 euros between two of his accounts, then made purchases of 1,400, 1,700, 1,700 and 1,200 euros with a debit card through Revolut, a neobank. Noting that the daily spending limit on the card is 1,200 Euros, Aida said, “Everything is with my permission and without any confirmation message.”
Adding salt to the wound They withheld 2,000 euros from a bank account he created jointly with his partner. “They took them on loan through a card that we never asked for, but the bank saw fit to issue because they thought we had a good banking history,” this A Cañiza resident criticizes. I really doubt that our history of underpaid young people has a good history of banking”.
2 thousand more euros
Aida currently lives in Madrid, so as soon as she realized she was the victim of a scam, she turned to A Cañiza to process the complaint. “It was a Friday; I returned to Galicia on Saturday and was at the Banco Santander branch in A Cañiza on Monday morning”, says the young womanRegrettably, A Cañiza did not allow his office to prevent the transfer of the €2,000 loan withheld from him. To do this, he had to go to the Puxeiros branch in Mos and then go to the Ponteareas Civil Guard police station to file a complaint about a bank fraud charge through computer manipulation or other similar fraudulent transfer. .
Aida’s cyberattack is not an isolated incident, because The National Police impersonated a bank last week, warning of the spread of this type of scam.. “It looked real,” explains the young woman from Cañicense with 1,000 euros left in her account. “I will have to invest the thousand euros that I have to pay a lawyer to get my money back,” complains Aida Lorenzo.