Paquita is 53 years old, lives in Murcia and is a victim of the “cashier scam”. They have gotten him steal 800 euros with all kinds of tricks, hooks and highly perfected stories. We have spoken to her to tell us how her scammers managed to leave her account in the red.
It all starts when Paquita publishes an ad on the internet to sell her second-hand car. She provides her contact information, mobile number, model and price: €14,000. After a few days receives a calla man who calls himself Juan Ramón tells him that he is very interested in the cartells him to reserve it for him, that he wants it and that he is going to give him a bonus of 500 euros to reserve it.
And here is the key. The scammer tells him that BIZUM has failed, that does not work and without hanging up on the victim, it offers another way to pay the signal: make a deposit in the bank. Paquita tells us that all the language and forms are perfectly studied so that you fall in and not suspect anything. Once there she begins the scam.
How do you get money without a card?
The scammer asks the victim very naturally to tell him which bank their account belongs to. To approach an ATM of that bank and make the deposit. Once you are in front of the ATMthere are some who allow you to operate without a card and just entering your phone number linked to the account and a code that is not the pin and that appears in the bank application of the victim.
The use of this code is similar to that used in WhatsApp hijacking with which criminals manage to hijack the account. The scammer told Paquita that he was already in front of the ATM, that in order to make the deposit he only needed the temporary code that appeared in her bank application, claiming that it is common. Paquita gave it to him and the scammer took 300 euros for that action and another 500 euros for the bizum that never arrived and that was actually collectable. Another scam linked to the bizum.
Limit of 300 euros
Banks that allow you to withdraw cash without a card normally have the limit withdrawing 300 euros per day, precisely to prevent them from leaving your account at zero. However, you can get that money and in the case of this scam, the limit that they can steal from you is 300 euros.
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