Big bank with a message. Better, be careful with such transactions

An unexpected amount of money appeared in your account? Immediately afterwards you received information that it was a mistake and a stranger was asking you for a refund? This is a clear signal that someone is up to something and wants to involve you in some illegal activity.

It is quite possible that you are participating in a scam.

Banking experts advise that in such a situation, do not send the received money to any other phone number or account than the one from which the funds came. The safest way is to contact your bank immediately via the hotline and report the entire matter.

Bank Pocztowy explains in a message that the fraudster publishes a false sales advertisement on the Internet and provides a randomly selected telephone number so that the buyer can make a transfer for the purchased item. It just so happens that it could be a number belonging to just about anyone.

The buyer makes a transaction using BLIK for goods that do not exist, and the money goes to the account of the person whose phone number was used without his consent or knowledge. The fraudster contacts the person (he knows the phone number because he provided it in the ad) and asks for a refund, claiming that he got the wrong number. But what is characteristic of this fraud is the fact that the fraudster asks for a refund to a different phone number than the one from which the amount was received.