Woman from Suceava, cheated with 50,000 lei by an unknown man. Scheme put up by the BNR's name
Call from unknown number. Photo: Dreamstime
A woman from Vicovu de Sus city, Suceava County, remained without 50,000 lei after she was called by an unknown man, who convinced her to take a loan and transfer the money. The police in Suceava have opened a criminal case and are trying to track down the individual, according to IPJ Suceava, quoted by News.ro.
IPJ Suceava announced on Sunday that a woman from Vicovu de Sus was presented to the police, notifying a fraud. She reported that, on Friday, she was contacted by an unknown phone number, and the appellant told her that a person obtained her data and made a power of attorney on her behalf, after which she went to a banking unit where she made a loan of 50,000 lei on behalf of the woman.
At the same time, the unknown man told the woman that, in order to help her, she will put her in touch with a person from a security department at the Romanian National Bank.
“Subsequently the victim was contacted by telephone by another person who presented as being from an alleged security department of the National Bank of Romania, an occasion to tell him that he will help and that he must go to the banking unit where he holds a bank account and make a loan of personal needs worth 50,000 lei, so that the amount would not be obtained, Borrowed to transfer it to an alleged account of the National Bank of Romania ”, said IPJ Suceava.
Thus, the woman went to the banking unit with a branch in the municipality of Rădăuţi, where she requested the loan of personal needs of 50,000 lei, money she took in cash.
Later, the woman asked her father to take her to Suceava by car, but did not tell him what happened, as the person who contacted her told her that there is a privacy policy and is not allowed to talk to relatives, authorities or other people.
Arriving in Suceava, the woman went to an ATM located in a shopping center, a location indicated by the appellant, where she scanned a transmitted QR code, after which she introduced the amount 50,000 lei in the ATM.
She was contacted by telephone again, communicating to her that she received the amount of money, has no debt to the banking unit and that “fraud” has been prevented.
According to IPJ Suceava, when she arrived at home, the woman was contacted by the staff of the banking unit, being verified the credit made and the later transfer, finding that the woman was fraudulent.
The police opened in this case a criminal case for deception.
