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While looking for a loan provider for a planned house purchase, the businessman came across a fake credit bank homepage on the Internet, where he registered. The fraudsters lured him out of the six-figure euro amount via a messenger service as supposed down payments or notary fees. The police reported this in a press release on Saturday.
The more detailed investigations into the case still have to be carried out, according to Gerald Sakoparnig, head of the fraud department at the Upper Austrian State Criminal Police Office (LKA). “There must have been an exceptional situation,” said the criminalist about the man’s loan search on the Internet. The injured party agreed to a loan of 350,000 euros with the criminals. The money they lured out ended up in foreign bank accounts, for example in Lithuania.
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The fact that the 55-year-old businessman made a total of 40 transfers before filing a complaint is not unusual for the fraud specialist. “The perpetrators act like psychologists, they exploit our instincts,” said Sakoparnig. A bond is built and pressure is created that all the other sums paid will be lost if more money is not added. “Experience shows that the chances of him getting anything back are very slim.” Most of the time the money is transferred from the accounts immediately, which is hardly possible to understand, and there are still agreements on official cooperation in the Asian region, for example.
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