“Sometime between the end of April and the middle of May, the man was in contact with an unknown perpetrator. He let himself be fooled by talk about buying gold from Yemen,” police spokeswoman Miluše Zajícová informed.
At the time when he was communicating with the man, the fraudster coaxed four payments from him in the total amount of 730 thousand crowns. The aggrieved party sent them gradually to other foreign accounts.
“Subsequently, he found out that he was apparently a victim of fraud and came to report the whole case to the office, where the case was documented and further investigations are being carried out in the matter. But the victim probably believed the fraudsters, who were only after his money,” added the police spokeswoman.
The most common frauds, how to detect them and not get robbed
In recent months, police statistics have been flooded with stories of unfortunate people who fell prey to Internet fraudsters. At the same time, cyber criminals use the same tricks over and over again, through which they try to deceive and often rip off the trusting. Prepare for them and see how to defend against the most common online frauds.
Scams under the heading News
Similar investment scams often appear on social networks under the banner of the news server Fairpress.cz. Of course, the editors have nothing to do with them. Fake journalists only abuse the appearance and logo. In this way, they try to instill in people a feeling of trust in the big media, after which they serve them “guaranteed investment advice”.
The design of the Fairpress.cz server is usually quite successfully imitated, which can confuse otherwise alert users. However, more attentive readers may notice that there is a completely different domain in the address bar of the Internet browser or that the links to individual sections in the header of the fraudulent message do not work at all.
